According to our moonbat rulers, we don’t need the fossil fuels that keep the lights on and make everything go. Like a stoned hippy driving a VW bus with the window rolled down and the breeze flowing through his hair, they believe that all we need is the wind. Back in the real world, it isn’t that easy.

For example,

Raw material and logistics inflation coupled with downward price pressures from auctions have led to an unsustainable situation where wind [original equipment manufacturers] are selling at a loss, with the sector unable to deliver Europe’s planned tripling of wind capacity by 2030, industry leaders have warned.

Inflation is out of control largely due to the war on fossil fuels, which has driven up the price of everything. Here, inflation bites the leftists who created it on the behind:

Steel for offshore wind towers is currently being purchased at over $2,000 per tonne, Hickok gave as example, adding that the prices of copper, carbon and logistics had also soared.

Even if wind power were economically feasible, there would be problems:

Offshore wind developer Orsted is asking [relevant] authorities to establish ‘no-sail zone’ at some of its offshore wind farms after a catastrophic failure of an offshore wind turbine at a Danish offshore wind farm.

Orsted report Wednesday that a rotor and three blades separated from the nacelle of one of the offshore wind turbines at its 400 megawatt (MW) Anholt Offshore Wind Farm and fell into the sea. No injuries were reported from the accident. But as a precautionary measure, Orsted is requesting [authorities] establish temporary ‘no-sail zones’ at other wind farms using the same turbines as the one that failed.

See what they want the sea to look like — in the name of the environment.

Speaking of the environment,

A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was also sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act…

Almost all of the eagles killed at the NextEra subsidiary’s facilities were struck by the blades of wind turbines, prosecutors said. Some turbines killed multiple eagles and because the carcasses are not always found, officials said the number killed was likely higher than the 150 birds cited in court documents.

That should read, “likely many times higher.” It’s not like the people running the turbines have a motive to report all the eagles they kill so that they can be punished.

The criminal case comes amid a push by President Joe Biden for more renewable energy from wind, solar and other sources to help reduce climate changing emissions.

Isn’t it just like Big Government to push you to do something stupid in the name of a deranged ideology, then haul you into court to pay for the consequences?

Authoritarians have been using climate change dogma as a pretext to erode our freedoms and destroy our way of life. The symbolism of their green energy mandates killing off our national symbol could not be more poignant.

Fossil fuels work. Nuclear energy works. Wind power does not work. That’s why the government has to subsidize it and impose it to keep the industry even half alive.

On tips from Steve T and Chris Neilson.

One Response to “Wind Power Trifecta”

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