Great Britain demonstrates that spending money on wind power is like pissing into the wind

Great Britain demonstrates that spending money on wind power is like pissing into the wind: "

Smart folks like Barack Obama love ideas like wind power. No dirty fossil fuels, no emissions, no carbon dioxide (something plants need, but hell, they don’t vote) and a chance to pay back the bros at windmill-maker GE. What could go wrong? Everything.

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Ace reveals the realities discovered by the British utilizing windmills to lower CO2 emissions:

Problem One. Wind Power isn’t cost effective compared to fossil fuel plants. The only way wind turbines get built is if somebody (via higher electric bills) subsidizes them.

Problem Two. Wind Power isn’t consistent. In the Brit winter you might have 4-5 day periods when little or no wind is blowing. The rest of the time, output will fluctuate greatly which Just Doesn’t Work with a power grid. So you need backup power for your wind turbines.

Problem Three. Not only do you have to pay for 17 gigawatts of wind farms you also have to build and pay for 17 gigawatts of backup gas turbine plants.

[Backup turbines] have the ability to quickly move from idling to full power to compensate for the erratic wind turbines…. The turbines emit more CO2 when they’re idling than when they’re at full power…. The CO2 emitted while idling wipes out any savings you could get from the wind farms!

Spending lots of money to gain exactly nothing – another example of the “brilliance” of the political class, a bunch of silly pompous dicks who live to piss in the wind.

Unfortunately, the taxpayers are the ones whose shoes are getting wet.

- Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Ace