Quotes
Alan Caruba
[Wind power] is, like so many other strange environmental ideas, a fantasy, a delusion that sounds rational right up to the moment you begin to look at it closely. When you do that, the vision of hundreds of wind towers producing miniscule amounts of electricity-and only when the wind is blowing-seems, well, nuts!
Alan Moran
The pity is that playing politics with electricity to garner green votes is likely to endanger reliability.
Aldo Leopold
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
Andrew Chapman
This mucking around with turbines all adds to the cost of something that is nothing more than a hoax, which would all be pretty funny if it wasn't subsidised by the public purse
Anthony Trewavas
Throwing large amounts of money at unreliable sources of energy when others with much greater reliable potential are simply starved of investment is poor economics and appalling practice and will not be followed by any other country governed with good sense. Wind farm policy is simply gesture politics at its worst.
Barbara Boone
People who say 'You can't tell me what to do with my property' are in actuality signing away the control of their property to wind companies in signing these leases.
Bertrand Russell
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bob Graham
Wind turbines generate much more cash than they do electricity.
Bob Graham
Let's get real. This is not about climate change or even electricity generation. It is purely about money.
Bobbie Bristol
If there is vandalism in any of this, it is on the part of those developers who would industrialize our ridge lines.
Buz Ketcham,
If wind were a perfect resource, it would blow all the time. It doesn’t. That’s one of the principal flaws of this initiative.
Cameron McNeish
In years to come the summit [Badenoch Corbett] could well offer close-up views of the pointlessly spinning giant turbines, the windmills of a spin-addicted government that chooses to ignore the growing evidence that this kind of renewable is next to useless in terms of combating carbon gas emissions
Carol A. Overland
What the wind gives, line loss taketh away
Christine Real de Azua
You really don't count on wind energy as capacity. It is different from other technologies because it can't be dispatched.
Christopher Booker
The fact is that the Scottish people - as opposed to their politicians - are waking up to the realisation that wind power is one of the greatest hoaxes of our age.
Christopher Booker
Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the CO2 emissions from a single jumbo jet.
Dale Osborn
Wind is like having a car that's out of fuel when you need it the most
Dan Stephenson
Wind farm, that’s a spin term. I call them wind turbine industrial zones.
Dave Buhrman
A wind farm is an industrial installation of vast proportions, and, if erected on the loftiest ridges, its industrial flavor becomes the new focal point for all view-sheds within a 15-mile radius.
David Hoopes
Londonderry recognizes industrial wind energy for what it really is - an unreliable and very very modest energy source masquerading as a solution for global warming with significant costs to the town’s environment, economy and quality of life.