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

  1. If it weren’t for the three armed crucifix, the Uber God Obama would not have been able to remove the American Bald Eagle from the endangered species list. But just let one duck land in a tailings pond…

  2. Hmm. Those are white. On First Nations land. Looks like “White privilege” to me.

    Shame if they burned down. But if it done in the name of Social Justice and fighting racism, then it’s all good.

  3. I live across the border in Montana – there are always some of those damn things just sitting still – not working.

    Clean energy with no fossil fuels means nuclear. That’s it. Period.

    1. “Clean energy with no fossil fuels means nuclear. That’s it. Period.”

      Alberta has some big rivers with only a few headwater dams. Why we would massively subsidize intermittent wind and solar power and ignore proven hydro-electricity can be chalked up to one thing. That would be a series of mentally retarded liberal premiers masquerading as Conservatives with the biggest retard being the current premier. Jason Kenney has no idea what conservative principles are plus he has a keen ability to piss off the voters. I highly suspect the 95% vote to disband the Wild Rose Party was a fraud. What other explanation is there for real conservatives to vote for Kenney. He seems to be campaigning for Red Rachel, the Bolshevik.

      1. In all fairness, hydro dams have a significant impact on the watercourse and reshape the entire geography upriver. But that’s the point: all forms of energy production have tradeoffs which need to be weighed against the benefits. Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear – there are no magic solutions, only less bad ones.

        1. Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam are approaching 100 years old and the economic benefits are immense. These hydro dams plus the TVA dams helped bring the US out of the depression. Negative effects are minor.

          1. Depends if you think flooding fertile valleys is “minor”; it’s not, and especially to the wildlife. Not to mentioned the effect of all the decaying vegetation in producing CO2. In those days, they didn’t clear the valleys first. Even for the Mica Dam, while they logged off the trees, they left the stumps to decay underwater. Every so often, one of these stumps comes loses and shoots up to the surface of the reservoir and even above.

          2. Covering tens of thousands of acres with solar panels and bird blenders is way better. Decaying vegetation? It decays on dry land too. Today they strip the vegetation. Cars scare the horses so we should outlaw them? Oops – that was a factor a long time ago like vegetation in reservoirs. Everything affects the environment. Nuclear is the safest. Hydro is the second best and you can store capacity until it is needed.

  5. Meanwhile the Prairies are to experience a record breaking cold snap with snow. But we need lots of global warming scams.

    1. Dr. Ed Berry has a brand new best-seller on Amazon. ‘Climate Miracle’ has hit #1 in the category after only ONE day! Dr. Berry is acknowledged as an expert in climatology. He’s not a fan – at all – of the climatistas. Enlightening 2-hour read!

  6. Wind contraptions are nothing more than Energy virtue signaling. Useless. Impractical. Stupid.

    They make GREAT subsidy farming! That’s it.

  7. My poor beautiful former home. But what can you expect as everyone in the western world continues to fall into lockstep with the US left. Dumb bastards.

  8. They’ve got a bunch of them on the Gaspé – ruined the scenery. Talk about shitting in your mess kit. Scenery is about all they had.

  9. My wife and I drove from the Okanagan to Ontario a couple of years ago and we were disgusted by the number of turbines along the way. Most were motionless. The only thing they did was ruin the views along the way.

  10. Took the kids down to Waterton park from Calgary in August. As we were driving along this stretch I got them to estimate how many windmills they could see. And then how many were moving. They estimated about 200, of which around 5% were showing any signs of movements.

    So I pointed out that this is the problem with green energy – you need to spend the money to install 20 times too much, because you can’t expect it to work all the time. You could have built 5 coal or natural gas plants instead of all of those bat blenders, and you would have had dependable power.

  11. Oh not for nothing.
    When you drive that area you see next to no raptors.
    The sky is barren.
    Yet driving south toward Pincher Creek there are Hawks,Owls,Ravens and Eagles soaring.
    And across the border the big sky has feathered folk again..
    So Pincher Creek is a massive success by Government Standards, clearing the sky of those endangered birds…for their own safety of course.

  12. Isn’t that marvelous, people actually voted for that. I hope the bastards really do freeze in the dark.

  13. It is actually worse than the article states. During cold weather the turbines may need to consume grid power in order to keep them from freezing. We all know that very often cold weather has very still air, no wind, just when the grid is loaded keeping houses and facilities warm. It takes a lot of power to spin these things.

  14. https://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html

    Always checkout this website.
    Its live and you can hit everywhere in the province of Ontario. As an example, RH Saunders on the St Lawrence – a place I’m quite familiar with through work – is currently putting out over 700 MW while all the wind in the province (there are 45 sites) are producing 176MW.

    And here’s your question for the ecotard: Which do you think is more constant: gravity or wind?

  16. There have been wind turbines in southern Alberta since the 1980s. The view has been destroyed since then. It’s just getting worse, thanks to Notley and Trudeau.

    And speaking of destroying scenic Alberta landscapes, we have this news from Edmonton. Our river valley park system is about to be plastered with solar panels to “power” the water treatment plant. Time to stock up on bottled water.
    https://globalnews.ca/news/7407328/edmonton-epcor-solar-farm-rezoning-approved/

  17. I used 280 kwh from mid August to mid September (my last billing) @$0.0599 per kilowatt hour = $16.77 of energy used. All the “other” costs came to $46.41. Avg cost per day currently = $2.05.
    Gas was $2.19 and total used 0.99 GJ. All the “other” costs were $39.14. Last February we used 15 GJ. The graph is a nice bell curve for the year for comparison. The gas was just for hot water used in August. Avg cost per day = $1.38.
    I’ve tracked utilities at this property since 1998. Average cost per month per year since 1998 to end of 2019 was $67/month for gas and $62 a month for electricity…including all the non gas/electric charges.
    They quote Alberta solar at $2.51 to $2.71 per installed watt (https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/canada/calgary/climate), just for the solar installation. My property isn’t big enough to place any sort of solar array on it. The cost to own and operate is prohibitive, anyway.

    “Green” power is pure bull, piled high. CO2 is plant food and a coral reef builder. There’s 40,000 feet of it stacked west of me in the Front Ranges. It’s readily dissolved in H2O, temperature dependent. Your regular Iceland volcano pukes out cubic miles of the stuff, every eruption. Sock Buoy should just shut his pie hole about “carbon”. Save on emissions if he’s so concerned.

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