Warming Scare Tactics | Renewable Energy

"It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it." - Robert Bryce

The Role of Renewable Energy Consumption in the Nation’s Energy Supply (U.S. Energy Information Administration)

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Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not "Green" (Cato Institute)
Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment, According To Researcher (Science Daily)

Solar:

Solar - Cloudy Outlook For Solar Panels: Costs Substantially Eclipse Benefits, Study Shows (Science Daily)
Solar - Solar Power Problems Part 1 - Solar Power Presents Many Hurdles to Consumers (The Heartland Institute)
Solar - Solar Power Problems Part 2 - Home Solar Power Fails Due to Practical Difficulties (The Heartland Institute)
Solar - Solar Power Problems Part 3 - Inefficiencies Deter Widespread Use of Solar Power (The Heartland Institute)
Solar - Solar-Powered Welfare (Cato Institute)
Solar - The False Promises of Solar Energy (Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
Solar - The Problems With Solar Power (Worcester Business Journal)

FACT: Commonly Available Solar Panels Are Only 12% Efficient (Source)

Wind:

- Wind Power is intermittent (wind farms must rely on conventional power plants to back up their supply)
- Wind Power costs twice as much as electricity generated from fossil fuels (the levelized cost of a kilowatt hour is 3.53 cents for coal, 5.47 cents for gas, 5.94 cents for nuclear and 6.64 cents for wind unsubsidized)
- Wind Power is not economically feasible without subsidies (subsidized at 1.9 cents per kilowatt hour in the United States)
- Wind Power equals only about 0.28% of the United State's energy supply (40% Oil, 23% Coal, 23% Natural Gas, 8% Nuclear and 0.28% Wind)
- Wind Energy cannot be harnessed to meet the timing of electricity demands (avoiding blackouts requires production and demand on an electrical grid be equal every second, so operators need gas-fired "load-following" generators that can adjust instantly)
- Wind Energy cannot be stored (unless batteries are used)
- Wind Farms are often located in remote locations, far from cities where the electricity is needed (this increases trasmission costs)
- Wind Farms can effect weather patterns (the turbulence from large wind farms creates warmer, drier conditions at the surface)
- Wind Farms can be eyesores (community members often complain about the blinding strobe-light sensation that takes place on wind farms at dawn and dusk)
- Wind Farms can produce noise pollution
- Wind Farms can interfere with radar
- Wind Farms have a devastating effect on birds (an estimated 44,000 birds have been killed over the past two decades by wind turbines in the Altamont Pass, east of San Francisco)
- Wind Farms need 100 times more land area than conventional power plants (to produce 1,000 MW of power, a wind farm would require approximately 192,000 acres, or 300 square miles; a nuclear plant needs less than 1,700 acres, or 2.65 square miles (within its security perimeter fence); and a coal powered plant takes up about 1,950 acres, 3.05 square miles)
- Wind Turbines have to be shut off in high winds or temperatures (wind turbines shut off in over 50mph winds or 100 degree temperatures)
- Wind Turbines can be dangerous (turbines can collapse, catch fire and the blades can break off)

Living Next Door to a Wind Farm, Australia (Video) (10min)
Wind Farms - Not In My Back Yard (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)

Wind - Catch the Wind, Change the Weather (The New York Times)
Wind - Energy Answer is Not 'Blowing in the Wind' (The Heartland Institute)
Wind - Hot Air and Wind (Cato Institute)
Wind - Loss of Wind Causes Texas Power Grid Emergency (Reuters)
Wind - Greenpeace Opposes Wind Farm Plan (BBC)
Wind - Problems With Wind Power (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Wind - The True Cost of Electricity from Wind Power And Windmill "Availability" Factors (Glen R. Schleede, Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind - Wind Energy Will Not Reduce US Oil Dependence (Glen R. Schleede, Minnesotans For Sustainability)
Wind - Wind Farm Claims Are So Much Hot Air (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Wind - Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests (The New York Times)
Wind - Wind Power: Red Not Green (National Center for Policy Analysis)

Birds - Altamont Pass Settlement Fails to Reduce Bird Kills (The Heartland Institute)
Birds - Coastal wind farm would destroy bird haven say protesters (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Birds - Eagles Killed By Wind Farm Blades (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Birds - Enviro Group Sues Wind Farm to Stop Bird Deaths (The Heartland Institute)
Birds - Rare Bird Killed By Wide Turbine (BBC)
Birds - Sea Eagles Being Killed by Wind Turbines (The Daily Telegraph)
Birds - Turbine Expansion Said to Threaten Birds (FOXNews)
Birds - Wind Farm 'Hits Eagle Numbers' (BBC)
Birds - Wind Farms May Threaten Whooping Cranes (Associated Press)
Birds - Wind Farm Threat to Bird Species (BBC)
Birds - Wind Turbines Hazardous to Birds, Bats (UPI)
Birds - Wind Turbines Taking Toll on Birds of Prey (USA Today)

Eyesore - Blow Back Over 'Eyesore' Wind Farms (ABC News)
Eyesore - Wind Farm? Not Off My Back Porch (ABC News)
Eyesore - Wind Farms Worst Eyesore in UK (BBC)

Noise - Family says wind farm noise made them sick (Fort Frances Times Online)
Noise - Flicker noise from turbines a worry for Montreathmont plans (Brechin Advertiser, UK)
Noise - Wind Farm Noise 'Harms Health' (Yorkshire Post, UK)
Noise - Wind Farms 'Make People Sick Who Live Up to A Mile Away' (The Daily Telegraph)
Noise - Wind turbines 'are ruining our quality of life' (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Noise - Wind Turbine Syndrome (Nina Pierpont, B.A Biology, Ph.D. Population Biology, M.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Radar - Wind Farm Blow to Radar Systems (BBC)
Radar - Wind Farm Fears For Ships' Radar (BBC)
Radar - Wind Farms 'A Threat to National Security' (The Times, UK)
Radar - Wind Farms Disrupt Radar Images (BBC)
Radar - Wind Farms 'Grounded By Air Safety Fears' (The Times, UK)
Radar - Wind Farms Threat to MoD Radar (The Press Association)
Radar - Windmill Projects Stilled For Now (USA Today)

Unsafe - The Dangers of Wind Power (BusinessWeek)
Unsafe - Danish Climate Minister Demands Explanation for Violent Wind Turbine Collapse (The Jutland Post, Denmark)
Unsafe - Danish Wind Turbine Rips Itself Apart (Video Close-up )
Unsafe - Danish Wind Turbine Rips Itself Apart (Video Wide-angle)
Unsafe - 242-foot Wind Turbine Snaps in Half, Killing a Worker at Top, Oregon (The Oregonian)
Unsafe - Big Chunk of Turbine Blade Shears Off (West Morning News, UK)
Unsafe - Blazing Turbine Falls Into Field, UK (BBC)
Unsafe - Danger Claim As Turbine Blade Snaps Off, UK (Berwickshire News)
Unsafe - Fire Damages Wind Turbine Near Garner, Iowa (Globe Gazette)
Unsafe - Man Dies After 100ft Turbine Fall, UK (BBC)
Unsafe - Two Giant Vestas Wind Turbines Collapse, UK (off-grid)
Unsafe - Unexpected Shrapnel From A Wind Turbine, UK (Habitat21)
Unsafe - Wind Farm Fears As Blade Snaps, UK (The Times, UK)
Unsafe - Wind Farm Fire Caused Blackout, Australia (News Limited, Australia)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine Catches Fire: Mount Storm, West Virginia (West Virginia Firefighters)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine Falls Near Weatherford, Oklahoma (The Oklahoman)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine on Fire, California (Video)
Unsafe - Wind Turbine on Fire (Video)
Unsafe - Winds Too Much for Turbine: Breaks Blade, Canada (The Sault Star)

Global Warming Fact...

Global warming alarmists would have you believe that a rise in CO2 causes temperature rise. However, this is exactly the opposite of what is actually happening. In general temperatures have risen 400-1000 years BEFORE CO2 starts to rise

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