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The trouble with Wind Turbines

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    The trouble with Wind Turbines

    Is that they just don't can't deliver when it's cold

    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

    #2
    Or when it's windy
    Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

    No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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      #3
      The trouble with cherry-picking one data point

      You may be missing the big picture

      RenewableUK | Press Releases - Record-breaking January for wind energy

      Or was it not cold last January?
      My subconscious is annoying. It's got a mind of its own.

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        #4
        Wind power will be non existent after the subsidies are removed, won't be long for wear and tear to takes those figures down sharply
        Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

        No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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          #5
          Wndless turbines.

          Bit pointless really. When it's a long cold spell it's usually because the area is in a high pressure area. Wind doesn't blow.

          If it's a long hot spell, the same applies.

          So unless we are between high and low pressure systems, they don't really work.

          Solar power, well the planet has been doing ok using that for the last few billion years.

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            #6
            Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post
            Wind power will be non existent after the subsidies are removed, won't be long for wear and tear to takes those figures down sharply
            Renewable electricity overtakes coal for first time in UK - Telegraph
            My subconscious is annoying. It's got a mind of its own.

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              #7
              MF Walter mitty can run wind turbines all over the country with his mouth f@rts about first class travel

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                #8
                Surely we can get all the energy we need from the World's largest source. Climate Change Bulltulip!

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                  #9
                  Wind turbines are about as meaningful as the Paris COP21 "accord"

                  https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...hing_FINAL.pdf

                  The deal in Paris says we all must reduce our emissions by 30% by the year 2050! The less developed world says the rich must do the lions share of this. So figure on at the very least ~1 day out of every 3 from now on must result in NO CO2 emissions. That means no transportation other than shanks mare or your bicycle, no cooking with gas, on the barbie, or with a wood stove, almost no electricity, and myriad other inconveniences. You are expected to give up more if you are one of the billion or so people living in a rich countries less if you are one of the other 6 billion people living in a poor countries.

                  A global 30% CO2 emission reduction next year, 2016, will be some 11 billion tonnes of CO2 NOT emitted. For some context, the world’s entire present day transportation system, cars, trucks, trains, planes, ships everywhere spew out a yearly total CO2 emission of just 7.6 billion tonnes of CO2! I don’t see the world abandoning all mechanized transportation just to cover 2/3’s of the CO2 payment required, so we must come up with practical, affordable alternatives!


                  Because no one seriously expects any of this happening it will just become a gravy train of money and a means of manipulation for the vested interests of climate change and governments needing an excuse to tax people more.
                  Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
                    climate change is a means of manipulation for the vested interests governments needing an excuse to tax people more.
                    FTFY you could have stopped right there
                    Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                    No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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