Wind Turbines = Enormous "Unintended" Consequences
The inevitable result when political science is substituted for real Science
I have written about certain bad aspects of wind turbines before — like here and here.
This post is a brief, simple overview of the many widespread adverse consequences of industrial wind energy. To keep it simplified, I’ve even minimized the references — but they exist for each of the statements below.
These “side effects” are the 100% guaranteed results when our technical policies are written by lobbyists, and passed by virtue-signaling non-critical thinking Legislators.
Put another way, this is what happens when Science is replaced by political science.
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Manufacture = Ecological Disaster (China re processing rare earths)
Installation = Ecological Disaster (trees killed, farmland lost, hydrological impacts)
Operation = Ecological Disaster (wildlife pillage, from whale deaths to eagle killings)
Decommissioning = Ecological Disaster (turbine blades are HUGE toxic materials)
Indirect Health Consequences: Fentanyl Deaths (Chinese criminal gangs are heavily involved in the huge amount of rare earths needed by wind turbines)
Direct Health Consequences: very problematic infrasound
Indirect Financial Burden: reduced tourism, homes devalued, agricultural losses, etc.
Direct Financial Burden: electricity rate increase, net jobs loser, etc.
Indirect Security Threat: its unreliability will cripple US Electric Grid
Direct Security Threat: weaker Military (due to radar interference, etc. See here.)
Delays Climate Change Progress (wasted money that could have been spent on meaningful items, like nuclear)
Makes Climate Change Worse: see my Report
Direct Loss of Rights: leaseholders are talked into giving up their civil rights, etc.
Indirect Loss of Rights: it is an excuse for legislators to extract US citizen rights. (E.g. in NY, citizens rights — home rule, etc. — have been profoundly eroded.)
Fossil Fuel Use: is required for the manufacture, delivery, assembly and operation of wind turbines.
Sustainability: Wind energy has major dependence on unsustainable components (e.g., rare earths).
Undermines our Society: which totally depends on inexpensive, reliable electricity.
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Putting Things in Perspective
A good perspective on this is that while industrial wind energy promoters claims that we need more wind energy, the indisputabler fact is that wind energy was abandoned for most commercial and industrial applications, well over a hundred years ago.
Even in the late 1800s it was totally inconsistent with our burgeoning, more modern needs for power. When we throw the switch, we expect that the lights will go on – 100% of the time. It’s not possible for wind energy, by itself, to EVER do this, which is one of the main reasons it was relegated to the junkyard of antiquated technologies (along with such other inadequate energy sources like horse and oxen power).
ALL those limitations are still true! Also, I listed twenty-five NEW liabilities of industrial wind energy some six (6) years ago… Since that time we have discovered numerous ADDITIONAL concerns (see above) that have monumental consequences.
Why do critical thinking citizens allow this travesty to happen?
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The Bottom Line
Wind energy provides no Net Benefits to citizens. Lobbyists and their clients make billions as Legislators try to get donations and votes by imaginary virtue signaling.
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Also I didn’t know that “Chinese criminal gangs are heavily involved in the huge amount of rare earths needed by wind turbines” as you wrote. So my euphemism of calling those that push wind turbines the “wind mafia” is not that far off - because that’s how it feels. NJ is all in. Well, NJ politicians are all in, not the populace. But we had no say and no vote.
And the worst of the wind turbines are the offshore ones. I recently wrote about this in brief:
One Friday evening, we saw a fantastic display of two humpback whales spouting and lobtailing for an hour before swimming back to sea. We identified them by their tails—that's how close they were. We occasionally see whales along our coast; when we do, everyone is in awe and delight at these magnificent creatures. Only one percent of the population sees a whale in its natural habitat, let alone two.
I am heartbroken by the recent and sudden deaths of hundreds of whales and dolphins along our coast. As ocean industrialization escalates, it increasingly threatens our marine habitats. The ocean is the only home these creatures have, and we are encroaching upon it. With only 70 reproductive females remaining, the North Atlantic Right Whale is alarmingly close to extinction.