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

  1. “Installed by renewable energy company Dulas it was supposed to have a life expectancy of 25 years.”
    I’d be curious if any bats or migratory birds died in the making of this horror show — er, “accident”.
    To employ a modified Churchillism, “Dull, Duller, Dulast”.

  2. “FAWLTY TOWERS”.
    I betcha they could withstand those hideous winds if they didn’t have those big silly blades on them!

  4. Reminds me of that thing just west of Port Burwell….that got whacked by lightening….melting a blade.
    Who could have anticipated that?

  5. Hummmmm…B.Franklin,but he’s dead,so…..no leftard,as math and real science is hard,so just the knuckle dragging red necks who still have something called common sense.

  6. If the whole concept of green power had any value it wouldn’t need subsidy from already overburdened taxpayers. The idiots pushing this fiasco are already on the public teat and most have never worked a real job in their life. They just can’t see why the average peasant is loathe to hand over vast amounts of money for utilities that are inefficient and unaffordable, not to mention a blight on the landscape.

  8. If the whole concept of green power had any value it wouldn’t need subsidy from already overburdened taxpayers.
    Then how do you justify the subsidies to petro power when the industry obviously doesn’t need it?

  9. The future came a little early?
    On the most southerly piece of land in America, big island Hawaii, there stand two wind farms,a picture of then would tell all Ontarions what is to come.
    I would post a pic, but its on my crashed laptop.
    The rust running down the white nacelles and support column, the missing blades and polluted site tell the whole tale, subsidy ran out.

  11. I don’t. In this day and age there should be no subsidies on anything related to fossil fuels or green energy. If the potential to make money is there, they will all find a way to raise private funds.

  13. Oh, come on! Coal-fired generating stations tip over ALL THE TIME.
    Green power is the future, people!

  14. Hydro power falls down all the time also. Just look at Niagara Falls. Water, falling, at a rate of millions of gallons a day. Terrible.

  15. Especially with advanced scrubber technology, and partial carbon-capture technology, like they could do at Lambton and Nanticoke if OPG were investor-owned, as opposed to your local Liberal government, which apparently believes that sexual orientation is much more important than such mundane considerations as economic growth and prosperity.
    Apparently, the only time they tip over is when Dalton McGuinty dynamites the stacks. On the other hand, Ms. Wynne, were you in favour of that muscular $272 billion debt before you were against it? Just curious (not so much, really).

  16. Green to me has become nothing less than an acronym for economic poverty wedded to de-industrialization of the West by outside powers using this new religion of the day for economic sabotage. By funding Luddites. Who have become mad with power , by political fools who rule us. Mean while the oceans of oil are ignored by the lie of global warming by humans.

  17. What subsidies to petro power? Name them, chapter and verse, or shut up. Posted by: gordinkneehill

  18. If we choose to spend tax dollars to subsidize the petroleum and nuclear energy industries should we subsidize other energy industries as well? For instance should the same drilling incentives apply to geothermal that apply to drilling for petroleum? Unlike wind, which will never live up to expectations at all [no surprise], geothermal is at minimum an energy doubler that runs almost 24/7/52. Put one kilowatt into geothermal and get 2 KW back.
    PV Solar in areas like southern Alberta is cost competitive with scrubbed-effluent coal if the subsidies are equalized. Solar panels only pollute China where they’re made. Once installed it’s non-polluting energy with about a 4 year payback if grid tied in southern Alberta where there’s lots of sun. At least 20+ years of nearly free energy when the sun shines. Solar in Ontario and east is a waste of money. We only drill for oil where we believe there is a good chance of getting good quantities. Solar should do the same.
    Oil companies are energy companies and they’ve bought up the licenses on a lot of innovative solar tech. We’ll use it when it becomes more profitable to do so. But hey as long as the taxpayers are providing oil subsidies, why bother? It’s not personal, it’s just business.

  19. What subsidies to petro power? Name them, chapter and verse, or shut up. Posted by: gordinkneehill I’ve been in the petro energy industry for more than 40 years. If you can’t research for yourself to learn about the generous subsidies the petroleum industry gets from the govt, then it’s your problem not mine.
    As for silly threats “or shut up”, that’s just being childish.. Do you want to have an adult discussion or be rude?

  21. Just whatever you want to believe gordo, it’s not particularly relevant to the real world. Your lame taunts don’t work on adults.
    Go find out for yourself if you’re interested.

  22. What I am curious about is why the US is not setting up a substantial number of new nuclear power plants (NPPs) in the US, although it is building scores of them in China.
    Sure there are regulatory burdens but that’s also true for conventional power stations.

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