36 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  2. When they tell you that wind power is cheaper than fossil fuels, this is one of the costs that they leave out.

    1. That cost and the fact that more energy is used to build them than they will produce in their limited operating capacity.

      1. and maintenance and the fact that they only ever operate at 30% of their nameplate capacity…and that you need reliable natural-gas to back them up so the power doesn’t go out. Other than that, they are a very expensive way of generating electricity. Oh, and we have to import the technology.

    2. And I believe Nova Scotia all have cracked bases as the company falls into default and going bankrupt.
      Long before their projected time.
      The Queen went all in on these flim flam shysters and hence the Global Warming becames an Emergency because they’re going broke. The Queens fleet of offshore wind turbines have wiring problems from the currents wearing these on rocks.

      Good investment that only our politicians invoke on us with no consulting the people as they know what our answer would be.
      Impose and then ask later after the damage is done.

      And this terrible crap technology is the future of recharging our vehicles.
      Ontario Premier Ford and all the politicians is all in and wants to build thousands of those recharging stands.
      Where they get the materials will be a mystery.

      1. JoJo

        Where they will get the ENERGY is an Even bigger mystery.

        Hydro is near 100% tapped world Wide.
        Oil n Gas..?? ha ha ha ha
        Wind n Solar..?? ha ha ha

        That leaves the only REAL VIABLE OPTION….NUCLEAR Likely some ~40 or so Reactors across Canada….and for some strange reason I cant see that EVER happening in my or my children’s lifetimes.

        So in the end its not really about the Climate, its about YOU & YOU & YOU there as well, that’s the issue…far too many of YOUse around ya see. Covid didn’t remove anywhere near what they wanted…so they gonna literally let us all freeze in the dark….

        As that Filthy Pedophilic POS in the PMO is thinking……..”just watch me”

    3. well it is, because it has no fuel cost over it’s 20 year life span… compared with a coal fired plant that has to pay fuel costs for every year of it’s 100+ year lifespan

      /s

      1. In Alberta we built coal fired power plants in the middle of coal fields. The cost of mining is minor, predictable, and not at all speculative.

        1. We used to do that in Alberta.
          Rachel Notley’s NDP government ordered all coal generators shut before 2030. These generators will be converted to natural gas. When Rachel gets re-elected, she is going to order the natural gas plants to shut down by 2035. I guess we could hug our pets to keep warm.

  4. The environmentalists should claim victory.
    So many birds were saved today, from the giant disabling bird swatter, swatting them dead in the sky.

    Yey for birds and the giant stinking fans falling over before their CAPEX was even close to paid off.
    No worries though, Turds’ got your back, you’ll suffer no financial loss because your giant bird swatting machine fell over before it produced even 5% of the energy it needed to create to offset its own manufacturing CO2 footprint.

  5. Giant bird swatting machine says, “Judo chop your neck bird, ha take that”….
    Wind says… “I don’t think so, not today”.
    And… just like that, it was gone…
    Safe, clean energy, so reliable. Energy you can count on. Energy our children can count on. Blown over by the same energy it purports to “harness”. One less bird conflagration killing machine in the air. Meanwhile, an oilwell flaring near a bush creates a nice warm habitat for a little birdy to ride out a -50C winter.

    1. The gooberment. No matter how many agreements they have saying someone else will do it, when that someone is bankrupt they do nothing.

    3. the poor farmer that didn’t read the contract he signed when he allowed the predatory wind producers to erect a poorly designed wind turbine on their land

      1. And damn … how that land is defiled. Can you imagine the outcry if that same land was covered in McMansions? Funny how defiling Virgin land … a pristine natural environment is ‘OK’ … if “your team” is defiling it. There is no honesty, or consistency with the greenie-left.

  8. If I was an engineer or even played one on TV I’d say the scale of these things is ridiculous and the design is crap.
    Way too big & way too tall and I wouldn’t be using blades, I’d use panels.
    The point of harnessing the wind should be when it is at its strongest so you wouldn’t need anything over 25 feet tall; and then you’d be charging batteries to be used for peak times to BACK UP the reliability of gas, nuclear and hydro.

    Had to warm up my tool batteries inside my truck to get them to work this weekend as -30 puts them in a coma.

    1. I had to buy a battery replacement for my ice auger. Not cheap. Still preferable over messy gas augers, but as I said, not cheap. In a few more years we will start to hear the howls of EV owners who need a new battery – and they wI’ll need a new battery. ICE vehicles easily last 15 years these days; I see many that are in great running order that are 25 years old and even 50+ year old cars and trucks are rather common.

      1. if you take care of them, you can get hundreds of thousand kilometers out of an ICE, but batteries on an electric vehicle are a consumable with a finite amount of times that you can recharge them before they lose too much capacity

    2. Buddy….I feel your pain. Had some issues as well with the DirtyMax last few weeks. I bought a crappy tire Eliminator 1600 CC Amps and at -30, still not enough to get the diesel goin. The booster is good down to about -20 and then it’s teats up till the weather changes – nowhere to plug in at our condo.

      1. Espar Hydronics Heater.
        Work great mounted on frame below block.
        Best with separate(own) 12V battery and a old 12V skidoo hand warmer pad wrapped around the fuel pump.
        15 minutes at minus 40 and the 7.3 starts smooth,30 to 45 minutes and you have cab heat when you fire up.For some reason the remote fuel pump gliches out right at -30C.
        On my first truck I thought it must be a factory reject.
        The second truck,exactly the same .
        Every one I talk to says the Webasco is better,as Espar’s don’t work when it is really cold.
        I can’t say as I have yet to play with one.

  9. Ain’t that pretty. But NBers better bend over a bit more: “…The company expects the work to cost between $75 and $100 million. “

    1. NB has no money, it’s a permanent welfare state. The cleanup and replacement work will be paid for by the citizens of the few productive provinces left in the country.

  14. They ll fix that in no time with a bunch of solar powered buldozers, solar powered cement truck, and they may also use a few solar powered helicopters!

  16. GE is making a killing off of taxpayers and idiotic rent seeking corporations. They must have known these were not reliable and would need replacement sooner than later.
    TransAlta hired an idiot for CEO who checked off the right boxes. I’m undecided whether pull out any investment in them or to wait for the massive subsidy coming their way.

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