Build more wind, they say. Well Alberta did, and still got next to zip

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Alberta now has 44 wind farms, and Wednesday night they collectively produced next to no power. Oh yeah, and the sun wasn’t shining, either. Imagine that.

And in case you missed it, Ottawa can take its journalism subsidies and shove them. Maybe that’s why I’m the only reporter I know of who’s not singing the praises of wind and solar? Will reporters whose salaries are 35% subsidized by the federal government do the same, and question the narrative?

29 Replies to “Build more wind, they say. Well Alberta did, and still got next to zip”

  2. If I could, I would. I would have to track down now 44 projects, spanning over 20 years. Good luck, with that.

  3. But some crony capitalists, corrupt bureaucrats and crooked politicians got filthy rich off of setting up bird grinder facilities.

    1. Nearly all are private capital, and sales are through power purchase agreements. SaskPower stopped building their own a long time ago, and have not given any indication they will build their own.
      However, Bekevar Wind in SE Sask got a $50 million cheque from the feds, making the local First Nation’s capital contribution to the project. And SaskPower is requiring all new wind have First Nation stakes.

  6. Interesting comment on the journalists who are 35% subsidized. It doesn’t work like that. The journalists you are talking about can’t write about or dig into these subjects. Or even report on them honestly. Because the owners of the rags they work for won’t allow it. There is nothing tangible about the subsidy for the actual journalist, other than some vague feeling that they continue to be employed in this dying industry because of it. But to the owners of the private organizations, Liberal back scratchers all, who are the recipients of this government largesse, it is very tangible. It is a very clearly marked line item on their accounting ledger. They know to the penny the amount of money this “program” is providing to them. And so they know what it will cost if they don’t toe the party line. The owners know what is in jeopardy if a Conservative government is elected.

  7. At this very moment in Alberta:
    Wind is producing 79 out of 4420 MW installed for a whopping 1.8%
    Solar is producing 14 out of 1470 MW installed for an astounding 0.95%
    Current hourly pool price is 53.3 ¢/kWh.

    Anyone who thinks we can run our society on “renewable” energy is an idiot.
    As an engineer I am ashamed that our so called engineering society supports this lunacy.

    2. Follow the money. Engineers don’t care if it makes sense. They are happy to provide engineering services to design and maintain all of these facilities. Opportunity knocks, they get rich.

  9. The year, 2044…

    Petroleum products are cheap and abondant again, being President Don Trump jr. , Back in 2038, mandated an international board of honest but muzzled scientists to reveal to the world once and for all that manmade climate change is the biggest lie ever perpetuated.

    We arrive in our maintained 2005 Chevy Astro, one of a few tough as nails older vehicles still around since cars made post 2015 are piles of over engineered crap, laden with electronic and junk plastic parts.
    Today, we are visiting an abandoned site…my grandpa used to visit car salvage yards, but on this day, we are visiting a disaffected wind turbine farm complete with piles of bird skeletons laying about..

    1. On the same topic= insanity, I watched a YouTube video of “Uncle Tony’s garage” where he covers the upcoming new Ram Ramcharger electric truck that will have a standard “extended mileage battery charger built in” : A 3.6 litre gas powered V6 engine under the hood…No you can’t charge the battery while driving, you must stop to charge and you can’t move using the gas engine as there are no transmission/driveshaft…you read that right, a 600 lbs 3.6 litre V6 engine that you tag along to charge your battery in case you can’t reach a charge station…Pure F’ing MADNESS!

    3. I’ve spent time beneath wind turbines and have yet to find a bird carcass. I realize that nature doesn’t leave a source of protein laying around for long. A dead bird would be back in the food chain quickly. That said, I’m sure there is some bird mortality but not nearly of the scale that domestic cats pose.

      1. Domestic cats are not preying on large, endangered raptors. If they were, they would be getting their asses kicked. Apples and oranges comparison.

  11. It is pretty simple. Any new power projects must supply continuous reliable power, let’s say, for a minimum of a week. Any reduction in power output the project only gets paid for the minimum output that week.
    OR. All intermittent power projects must have a secondary power source (battery, hydro, natural gas, diesel,etc.) to supply power (for a continuous week week) or only get paid for lowest output of the week. Example: zero output for 1 hour is 7 days times zero. I love this idea. A more stable grid and occasionally consumers get some free power.

  12. A very big waste of multiple resources with a return that is so small as to insignificant. The graft was and continues to be freaking horrendous.

  13. The magical batteries are going to bend time and space to ensure the lights stay on.. When that unsustainable, unaffordable dangerous boondoggle runs out of free money they will blame us for not supporting them $$$..

    We call this progress.. I call it makework..

  14. If they perfect magical batteries we will obviously want them and we won’t need the power company anymore.. How’s that for a business plan?.. This is how foolish the green BS is.. No way they are going to hand over energy independence to us.. Oh yaa, to save the world :).. All they want is free money..

  15. Prairie pinwheels: utterly useless, uber-subsidized garbage that permit the rapacious climate-industrial complex to thrive. Never mind the damage they do to human health and sanity; any electricity generated is incidental to the financial graft that they enable.

  17. I still think these rotating crucifixes can serve a useful purpose.
    I propose strapping those who use tax payer funds to enable this theft,to the sails.
    Around and around until their bones drop off.
    Although incorporating a mechanical linkage to position the parasites neck for perfect intersection with the 200mph wingtip is also a fine use.
    And the erratic nature of wind would be another fine torture for the bandits,never knowing when the wind will pick up enough to cure all their earthly problems.
    If that is too cruel,well we can always go back to simple hangings.

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