We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

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

1. Clearly the windmill fell due to glowbull wormening.

   1. For some unfathomable reason, our governments hate real good smart ideas for all these subsidized disasters of wind turbines and Solar panels systems.
      We have so much free flowing water that can have portable ways to harness the torque energy from our waterways in a multitude of different ways. Steady, free flowing and self sustainable energy and yet they choose monstrous disasters that take years to build.
      Harness the tidal waters too is not difficult as water comes in and goes out.
      Just our winter months would take more creative thinking in how to protect from ice or in keeping it warm enough throughout our cold temperatures.
      From using plastic buckets on a chain system to a turbine that looks similar to a tornado in blade shape, their are many ways to harness electrical power from that torque. Which is steady and 24/7 energy.

      Ah, but where’s our governments payout by lobbyists…

      1. It’s clear the McSquinty-Wynnebag regime ignored everything the qualified engineering folks told them. Because physics & math, and all that…

   2. As far as government subsidies are concerned, windmills are windfalls of cash.

2. I think this one was built by SNC Lavalin.

3. I drove past the wind farm near Trochu, Alberta in early October, 2017 shortly after an early blizzard hit the area. Only half were turning, the rest had one, two or all three blades ripped off.

   When I drove past the following April they had not yet been repaired.

   When advocates tell you how cheap wind power is now, they don’t count those kind of repair.

   Good thing they had fossil fuel backup or it would have been a very cold winter.

   1. Ironically, when the wind is too strong the windmills have to be turned off to protect their structural integrity (ie. so they don’t blow apart). A waste of good carbon fibre (btw, most of us know where carbon fibre comes from)(ahem, oil and natural gas, ahem.)

      1. Chris, as I have said many times, wind turbines and solar panels cannot be built without fossil fuels and they require more energy inputs than they will ever deliver in their time of use. They are neither clean nor green or renewable.

         1. Yes.
            Although they have provided lots of “green.” That is, cash, for those like Samsung who have been Hoovering up Ontario tax money since the McGuinty days.

   2. Yes Dirtyman, but understand swindlemill owners have contracts that pay them NOT to generate electricity, when they are actually working. I am sure they are hapy to NOT be producing energy because they are still producing revenues and look at all the maintenance costs they are saving.

4. Sunday I was reading that even with a “cold weather package” of heating for the bearings etc the turbines must be shut down at -33 C and lower due to damage from operating in the cold. It is rare that we are this cold but when it happens, as it is happening this week who needs dependable electricity. Better to be green and freeze in the dark 😉 ….. freezing in the dark would look good on Turdeau and climate Barbie.

5. From Kate’s link…

   “The three turbines (offshore Japan) were constructed in stages from 2012 to support the local economy by creating a new industry based on renewable energy. To commercialize wind power generation, the operational rate of a turbine must remain at 30% to 35% or more, according to the (Japanese) ministry. But the rates of the turbines off Fukushima had been around 4% to 36%, according to trading house Marubeni Corp., which participated in the project.”
   https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2020/12/17/government-to-dismantle-%c2%a560-billion-wind-power-project-off-fukushima-coast/

6. Regarding the Hamilton Beach project. “The red metal towers topped with vertical turbines were installed in 2017 with the help of a $500,000 federal grant – partly as beach art, but also to charge batteries used to power night lighting at park gateways.”

   Just chill, it’s politicians making debt for us so we don’t have to, growing / bleeding the economy from the heart out.

7. Medicine Hat this morning has a temperature of -31*C and a wind speed of 4 km/hr. If we are lucky, we might get 8 hours of weak sunlight today. If we go green, like the morons in charge want us to, the death toll will be 1000 times worse than Corona. But we will save the planet. “Green Energy” makes MOST of Kanaduh UNINHABITABLE !!!

   1. The same moron in charge is cashing in today with his planet-saving carbon taxes.
      FREE SASKABERTA FROM THIS INSANITY !!!!!

   2. But … just as The Chinah Flu has a silver lining … by killing costly end of life old people and other diseased humans … so too … does freezing old people to death from “green” energy. You see, killing old people is a FEATURE of Socialism/fascism/communism … not a BUG.

      1. Socialism/fascism/communism.

         Sociafasco kills.

8. Wind power is supplying 0.5% of Alberta’s electricity demand this AM.

   Windmills providing 60 MW. Installed capacity 1781 MW. So operating at 3% of capacity.

   How are the greens heating their homes?

   1. Alberta currently requires 10470 MW electricity.

      Wind power generation is operating at 3% of capacity.

      At 2 MW per turbine, we need 5235 wind turbines (100% load factor which never happens).

      But to provide power 24/7 on cold days like today (load factor = 3%) we’d need 5235/.03 or approx. 175,000 wind turbines.

      And with that number of wind turbines we’re still not using electricity to heat homes or charge electric vehicles.

      1. joe, we better get planting more trees as we will need to burn something to keep from freezing. I wonder is that trudeau’s green plan.

         1. No … as I recall … PM SocksINpussy is selling all Canadah’s trees to the U.K. for them to burn. They claim burning wood is net carbon neutral or some such convoluted logic. But only after it’s pelletized and shipped 6,000 miles

            1. They keep this up they will have to make rafts out of em and float them over. That is if and before some cold freaking Canadians decide that all politicians deserve a dirt nap under the permafrost.

   2. But but but … the greenie homes are soooooooo well insulated … they need no heat. Right?

9. Wind farms are an ecological disaster!! Anyway you look at them.

   1. A blight on God’s beautiful landscape

10. L – If no pagan environmentalist is there, to hear it fall. Did it make a MSM newsworthy sound ?

11. Poorly designed, economically unsound and ecologically harmful.
    Thats what you get when you skew the market with subsidies.
    K cars of the sky.

    1. I think you misunderstand K Cars. The design was versatile, achieved the goals of its price point, and helped to save Chrysler. Yeah, there were subsidies involved there too, but from an engineering point of view, the K-series worked for its intended purpose.

       Perhaps “Trudeau of the sky” would be the analogue you’re looking for!

    2. I’m not convinced K-cars were as bad as that.

       1. I sold them and they were crap.
          But.
          Two Trudeaus?
          Canadians are paying big time for their mistakes.
          Kcars were bad, but a rickshaw pulled by flatulent critters isn’t Trudeau bad.
          Canadians must have been very, very bad.

    3. If only the were as efficient as a K car.

12. I am going out rite now to hook up my scrap hauling trailer :-))))

13. a couple of years ago there were 16,000 dead wind mills in the USA alone, I’m certain there are a few more by now!

    1. GYM, you are correct and they are not being recycled, the cost is prohibitive. At one dead wind farm they dropped all the turbines and buried them on site. Solar panels will be a hell of a lot worse to dispose of. Use your trailer for hauling coal it will be worth it’s weight in gold one of these days. People seem to forget the fact there there are tons of concrete and steel holding these dinosaurs in place. They are already dinosaurs.

14. Seems like a question for CBC: If a wind turbine falls in an open field in broad daylight, is anybody allowed to see it?