Also, these windmills can only afford to operate because of massive annual government cash gifts. Nothing about them is viable.

Don't forget about the blades icing over in the winter, and the helicopters needed to wield flamethrowers to melt the ice. All petroleum fuel. Every step of the way.

The meme left out the amount of electricity necessary to run the electric arc furnaces that are necessary to melt the metals that go into making steel. It's quite substantial.

Same problem with solar and ethanol.

c'mon, man!!! NEVER let facts get in the way of a good story, shall we??

Also - If memory serves me correctly they contain 500 gallons of oil that needs changed out yearly!

Not only that, but those massive goofy windmill simply CAN'T be the most effective design. You're telling me that is the culmination of billions in green energy research?

Solyndra. Colorado toxic waste site. Ex corporate officers got millions from the halfrican’s green subsidies before it went bankrupt and they bolted.

And its hilarious, they always have to place a ton of these suckers right next to the highways. Can’t have them out of sight out of mind, they must be visible to anyone visiting the area! Know that this state likes green energy pandering 👍🏻 only where we can virtue signal from it.

Bruh, no one mentioning the fact either, that after all this nonsense, they have to bury them in the ground to dispose of them once theyre used up.

In fairness, I have seen that argument made both ways but it is a certainty that the renewables brigade never do any sums. For instance, I once estimated that to supply all the energy used by the US in a year you would need to cover an area of eight times that of Texas with wind turbines.

Renewables are intermittent and need some sort of storage to work. Currently, they rely on the existing power gird to cover any shortfalls. The number of batteries required is not trivial. Many Tesla Gigafactories would need to be running at max throughput to satisfy the demand.

Incidentally, that is one way thay make renewables look cheap. Costs of supplying energy when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining is transferred to the fossil fuel industry. They are the ones having to keep plants ticking over just in case the wind drops.

So true. I worked for the largest municipal water and power company in the US (in Commiefornia) an we were mandated by the state to install these beasts at a huge cost. You have only touched the tip of the iceberg on the carbon footprint (another stupid term that means nothing). A brand new electrical transmission line had to be installed through mountainous terrain, along with electrical receiving stations, and facilities to house employees. It goes on and on.

Now for another exercise in stupidity, we have the photo voltaic solar farms in the Mojave desert. Another huge amount of energy expended in the creation of the panels, and the steel structures to hold them, along with the grading (think big dozers), the new electrical transmission lines and receiving stations, etc.

All of this nonsense is sponsored by the Federal Government and the State Government who subsidize the capital costs to construct these monstrosities. Without all the tax breaks (think Electric Vehicles as well) nobody in the right mind would waste their money on these projects. They are huge money losers.

I don't think they care about the environment at all. Seems like their plans all involve laundering money thru "green" corporations, filling their own pockets, jet-setting around the world, and enslaving the rest of the population to their "green" schemes.

The "green energy" reasoning is pointless reasoning for these. To use them for resilient infrastructure on the other hand is a very good reason. If we get to a point where we cannot ship coal or diesel to run power plants we will be glad to have these. Same with Solar. It is not justified in lowering any kind of emissions. It is great to have when the power is out and the noise of a diesel generator will attract every ne'er do well in the area to you.