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The Wind Energy Scam

The Wind Energy Scam

2012-03-05
Source: Carpe Diem


From Matt Ridley's new cover story in The Spectator, "The Winds of Change":
"To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero
Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide.  


If wind power was going to work, it would have done so by now. The people of Britain see this quite clearly, though politicians are often willfully deaf." ....





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