Comments on: CO Wind Farm Company Is Shutting Down

By: BillK

BillK — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:23:29 +0000

That’s why multiple states have passed laws requiring an (ever-increasing) percentage of power be generated by “green” power.

Couple that with cap and trade and soon coal and gas generation will be outlawed altogether, and our homes will simply go dark and cold at night or when the wind isn’t blowing.

Welcome back to 1910, except they burned coal and wood then, and both would be forbidden under the New Energy Order.

By: Chuckk

Chuckk — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:06:11 +0000

Whatever happen to solar pannels? All they needed was a few billion government dollars and they would solve all energy problems.

By: Perdido

Perdido — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:14:23 +0000

They look really cool, though.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:34:56 +0000

The logo under the symbol could say, “When Shit Hits The Fan”

By: Right of the People

Right of the People — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:11:44 +0000

I wanted to have a windmill powered electric car but the darned extension cord only let me go to the end of my block.

The only regular source of wind is in Washington at the Capitol Building but then only when congress is in session.

By: proreason

proreason — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:24:57 +0000

The boy king should get a beanie with a windmill on it.

It would be the symbol of his movement.

The symbol of my movement will be a beanie with a windmill on it covered with a turd.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:55:21 +0000

No one ever wants to bring up what the green energy will cost, do they. I wonder why that is.

BTW, is windmill construction green. I bet those 100 yard diameter monsters aren’t grown in the average vegetable garden.

By: Wanderlust

Wanderlust — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:54:00 +0000

I think the writer was talking about natural gas prices, not gasoline. Low natural gas prices would depress cent per kilowatt energy prices, making expensive energy from windfarms sub-economic even with expensive subsidies and utilities pandering to get people to pay extra for “green” power.

I have experience in trying to get a windfarm project “across the line”, where the sole reason for the project’s existence was political (outside of the US). Still didn’t work even after twisting the project financials like a pretzel and applying special tax rules to the numbers. Bottom line is, industrial users *cannot* depend on wind power as an energy source for power-intensive processes. Period.

While I don’t doubt that there is a niche somewhere for wind power, it’s just that: a very narrow niche. Wind by its very nature, in most places, cannot supply baseload generation for the grid where there is no backup generation supply. It can only supplement baseload, and only at a high price.

But then again, windfarms have nothing to do with a desire to generate power and everything to do with pandering to a political class that wishes to pay off its cronies while screwing the masses.

-Wanderlust

By: GL0120

GL0120 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:57:18 +0000

Heck, I did my best for the planet, I tried powering my car with a windmill but it just didn’t wanna work. I had all kinds of problems
Since I drive an SUV, I sit a little bit higher than most cars and this caused the blades to keep breaking, not to mention the damage to them little bitty cars that the blades hit. I’m not even gonna mention them poor bicycle messengers.
Then there were those poor folks who were standing just a little too close to the street when I drove by.
I am truly sorry but I just have to go back to gasoline, my insurance company is getting real tired of paying claims for cars and people that I chopped up.

By: BillK

BillK — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:39:14 +0000

After the state of Colorado fronted them $5 million and they have been promoted up and down the state by Democratic Governor Bill Ritter as an example of the “green” jobs Colorado is attracting, we have this, as reported by Denver’s KUSA Television:

Vestas shutting down production for unknown time

WINDSOR – Denmark-based wind-turbine company Vestas plans to temporarily halt production at its Windsor blade manufacturing plant for an unknown period of time in the first part of 2010.

Most, if not all, of its 500 employees at the plant will be placed on furlough during that time…

http://www.9news.com/news/arti.....yid=128424

The pinwheel maker isn’t laying people off, just putting them on “furlough.” Got it.

But how can this be the “most challenging economy since the Great Depression” after Obama’s recovery plans?

No fear, the EPA’s CO2 regulation will be a boon to companies like this that otherwise would have little to no market whatsoever for their products.

You’ve got to love it when Government mandates purchase of an otherwise largely pointless product, don’t you?