Wind turbine photo of the year

The attached picture is a metaphor of the complete insanity of the climate change, ergo ‘unreliable’ energy, debate.

In decades to come this one photo alone with sum up an era of stupidity, when rational thought, logic and commonsense was abandoned and immense wealth and resources needlessly sacrificed.

Watts Up With That?

From the “fire and ice” department, Craig Kelly writes on Facebook

de-icing-wind-turbine

The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.

In the attached picture, recently taken in Sweden, freezing cold weather has caused the rotor blades of a wind turbine to ice up bringing the blades to a complete stop.

To fix the “problem” a helicopter is employed (burning aviation fuel) to spray hot water (which is heated in the frigid temperatures using a truck equipped with a 260 kW oil burner) on the blades of the turbine to de-ice them.

The aviation fuel, the diesel for the truck, and the oil burned to heat the water, could produce more electricity (at the right time to meet demand) than the unfrozen wind turbine could ever produce. (Before it freezes up again).

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One Comment on “Wind turbine photo of the year”

  1. Respect Silence says:

    I don’t doubt the conclusions of climatologists or think it’s “us against them” since Man is causing damage on many fronts. But I do agree that wind turbines are an obscene, ineffective solution to much of anything, especially if it’s a pro-environment cause.

    This image could be our future if the madness doesn’t stop:

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