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Monday 23 September 2019
WHAT IS THE TRUE COST OF WIND ENERGY?
This piece looks behind the headlines claiming that wind energy is now as cheap as gas turbines. Of course they find that when all the subsidies are added on this is far from the case.
It's not just dollars we need to look at, but how much more dangerous those "green jobs" are than in other energy sectors. http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/accidents.pdf
"According to the Caithness Windfarm Information Forum, there were 35 fatalities associated with wind turbines in the United States from 1970 through 2010. Nuclear energy, by contrast, did not kill a single American in that time." https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lachlan-markay/2011/03/17/inconvenient-truth-wind-energy-has-killed-more-americans-nuclear
THE TRUE "COST" OF WIND
ReplyDeleteIt's not just dollars we need to look at, but how much more dangerous those "green jobs" are than in other energy sectors.
http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/accidents.pdf
"According to the Caithness Windfarm Information Forum, there were 35 fatalities associated with wind turbines in the United States from 1970 through 2010. Nuclear energy, by contrast, did not kill a single American in that time."
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lachlan-markay/2011/03/17/inconvenient-truth-wind-energy-has-killed-more-americans-nuclear