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Alan Caruba Description: [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! Added on: September 22, 2007 9:14:23 PM | Rate / Comment |
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Alan Moran Description: The pity is that playing politics with electricity to garner green votes is likely to endanger reliability. Added on: January 18, 2007 9:09:38 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Aldo Leopold Description: Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them Added on: March 06, 2006 8:05:16 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Andrew Chapman Description: 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 Added on: January 04, 2007 8:30:58 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Anthony Trewavas Description: 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. Added on: December 30, 2005 8:31:39 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Barbara Boone Description: 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. Added on: August 01, 2005 12:00:00 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Bertrand Russell Description: There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Added on: February 25, 2007 5:42:56 PM | Rate / Comment |
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Bob Graham Description: Wind turbines generate much more cash than they do electricity. Added on: June 19, 2006 8:52:54 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Bob Graham Description: Let's get real. This is not about climate change or even electricity generation. It is purely about money. Added on: April 01, 2006 7:36:25 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Bobbie Bristol Description: If there is vandalism in any of this, it is on the part of those developers who would industrialize our ridge lines. Added on: November 04, 2005 3:26:33 PM | Rate / Comment |
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Brian Kelly, Supervisor USF&WS Wyoming field office Description: Constructing wind farms in core areas, even for research purposes, prior to demonstrating it can be done with no impact to sage grouse, negates the usefulness of the core area concept as a conservation strategy and brings into question whether adequate regulatory mechanisms are in place to protect the species. Added on: July 11, 2009 1:13:06 PM | Rate / Comment |
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Buz Ketcham, Description: 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. Added on: September 26, 2006 10:30:06 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Cameron McNeish Description: 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 Added on: August 27, 2006 10:07:14 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Carol A. Overland Description: What the wind gives, line loss taketh away Added on: August 29, 2005 9:15:02 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Christine Real de Azua Description: You really don't count on wind energy as capacity. It is different from other technologies because it can't be dispatched. Added on: August 29, 2006 10:57:32 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Christopher Booker Description: 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. Added on: April 08, 2007 8:31:08 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Christopher Booker Description: 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. Added on: January 22, 2006 10:55:43 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Dale Osborn Description: Wind is like having a car that's out of fuel when you need it the most Added on: March 04, 2007 7:40:35 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Dan Stephenson Description: Wind farm, that’s a spin term. I call them wind turbine industrial zones. Added on: February 05, 2007 7:41:16 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Daniel Pearce Description: It would be naive to think that green energy ventures were going to run perfectly. But did scientists and public officials not think this through at all? Added on: July 07, 2009 9:07:55 AM | Rate / Comment |