"Green Energy" No Matter the Cost?

[hollohas]

I'm not buying this for a second... There has to simply be more to the story not being told. This story is saying that our capability to detect incoming aircraft can be defeated by a wind farm? BS! I can see is possibly causing dead spots with Doppler radar, but that is easily solved by putting another doppler detector up in the opposite side of the wind fans.

The fact that wind farms disrupt the military and less importantly weather radar systems is legit and is not recent news. My mother has been working for different utilities for decades and has been to many conferences on wind power...many times the negative effect on radar is discussed and has been for years.

The ability to detect incoming aircraft is not necessarily defeated but the wind farms do create distortions in the radar.

And Delfuego, Fox News is never a sponsor of the conferences.

[Zundfolge]

And when is wind power un-American and un-capitalist?

When it exists ONLY because there are government subsidies paying for it.

I have no problem with wind power if it produces enough power to justify its costs. It doesn't.

[spyder]

When it exists ONLY because there are government subsidies paying for it.

I have no problem with wind power if it produces enough power to justify its costs. It doesn't.

Wind and solar is the a lot less expensive than nuclear. They just need to find something better than what is available...

[Drilldov2.0]

All power sources have their problems. Wind turbines are eye sores and take up acres and acres of area to get enough to get any considerable output. They have a lot of line loss too. Nuclear plants make a lot of power, but the risk that comes along with them is very high. Ask Japan and Russia.

If the power problem was an was one, it would be solved already. There's a lot of study going on in this area right now. Hell, even Metro is studying which oils produce the highest yields of biodiesel. Brazil is almost solely dependent on sugar cane for their power. They are making ethanol gas from it and then compressing the grindings into fuel bricks for use in power plants. Then there's a power plant (I think its in Japan) using old tires as a fuel source and they have figured out how to scrub the exhaust to zero pollutants. Problem is they won't sell or share the process to scrub the exhaust.

ultimately, any power is going to have a 'real cost'. Power isn't free, and can never be. The laws of thermodynamics cannot be disregarded, and there is always a cost in energy transfer.

Ask France instead.