Windfall: An Independent Film about Wind Energy

I watched this on Netflix last night, it’s a free streamer by the way if you have their service. It’s an independent film made about wind energy in Meredith, NY which is in Delaware County. I highly recommend that people who think they actually have a grasp of what modern wind energy is and think they really know what it looks like and what its benefits are should watch this documentary.

One thing that should be noted upfront is that supporters of alternative energy who have the courage to watch this film will solely blame the big evil greedy corporations for wind’s shortcomings in their rush to make profits and it’s totally misplaced.

In this case the blame rests completely on the federal governments rush to come up with green energy solutions without regard to their environmental impact, cost or benefits. It set up these wind companies with huge tax breaks to build them. The wind generators cost around $3 million each to build, the feds give a $1 million tax break and the State of New York gives a $1 million tax break to build them. The other million had to be raised by Wall Street investment firms.

First and foremost the blame has to be laid at the feet of the ignorant local officials on the town council and the town planning commission that got duped into agreeing to a wind farm by not really doing enough research on the impact of what 430 foot wind generators would have on their community. The City as a matter of course didn’t see any positive financial impact to their coffers as a result of the project but investors made millions on this governmental con.

Once the process of building these wind generators began most of the citizens of the county were in the dark about what the impacts were. So as they started being built and realized what impact they’d have the outrage grew and the story of their fight to stop them began.

One of the leading people on the town council was a big land owner in Delaware County. He wanted the wind generators and sold part of his land to build some of them. Another member of the town council was an attorney who tried to dictate policy about the wind generators and obviously was totally out of her league about the consequences once construction and implantation of the wind generators began.

I looked for movies reviews on Yahoo’s movie site and found one. Why? Because the truth slams Greenies smack in the face about wind’s problems and they can’t deny or explain it away after watching this film. If you’re the kind of person who wants to be informed about important issues that impact all of us I encourage you to watch this film and spread the word about its message.

Smog, Climate Change and Energy are 3 Seperate Issues

I got into a debate with a Global Warming Alarmist from LA today on a message board and thought I’d share this rant. No sense wasting it on one person. If you have a few minutes, watch all or part of this video for some background.

The Global Warming Swindle

LA does have some smog and it does need to be dealt with but one EPA sized rule does not fit all. Remember living in the bubble of LA is different than living in the fly over states. Air quality needs to be addressed in big cities but even with the smog it's NOT causing global warming. Smog and global warming are not connected and never have been. The facts don't fit the argument and today the smog is not as big a problem as it was because cars are burning cleaner fuel and are not admitting as bad of emissions as 20 years ago.

Even if the air quality in LA still needs improvement we shouldn’t destroy the entire nation’s economy by spending billions on energy systems than have a huge deficit on cost and delivery. Especially if it can only be counted on to meet less than 10% of our energy needs right now. It’s a real fairy tale to believe that solar, wind and bio-fuels are going to heat and cool every house in the US or power every car, ship, truck or train that moves food and every other essential consumer products we need.

I’ll give one truly ironic and moronic thing I love about California greenies that drives me crazy in this fantasy that is global warming. Some think electric cars are the answer. Really? First where does the electric power come from? Power plants. What do they use as an energy source to fuel power plants? Coal and natural gas. When I lived in Sacramento 10 years ago (another city with smog problems) the people of California didn’t want any more power plants built because they burned coal or natural gas.

Well Gee… how the hell are you going to power electric cars if the power grid in cities like LA and Sacramento are maxed out already? Electric energy is not an invisible source of energy. I’m amazed how stupid people are in just this one case alone. Then the other issue is the manufacture and the disposal of the car batteries if millions are put into production and used. The chemical waste created by batteries would be far more harmful to the environment that any diesel or gas burning vehicle.

Just like power plants some don’t want solar farms either in California. It’s the same moronic thinking that is getting us all nowhere. Why are we letting California control the narrative on the whole climate change and energy debate? They don’t have a clue. They want Solar Energy but not at the sake of Turtles. Click on the link below to read to see firsthand the madness of  it all.

Mojave Solar Project Killing Threatened Desert Tortoises

Bio-fuels have proven to be a disaster. First you must use energy to plant the corn, then energy to harvest the corn, and then use energy to transport the corn to a processing facility, and then use energy to process the corn into fuel, and then use energy to transport the fuel to dispensing facilities. Wow, very efficient system there isn’t it? More energy is wasted in making the energy than any benefit of using it thus it’s a negative outcome not just from an energy standpoint but from an economic outcome. Not only that but the corn used to make the fuel is causing worldwide food shortages and driving up the price of foods that use corn additives.

The farmers planting the corn for bio-fuels love it because they’re receiving massive government subsidies to grow and plant corn for bio-fuel. We shouldn’t have to subsidize another grand and stupendous failure like this one period when oil, natural gas and coal are in abundance.

Wind and solar are a joke too, because they cannot and will not work in certain areas of the US because of weather conditions. I live in NW Oregon wind and solar is impossible here just as it is many parts of the country. It’s total nonsense that the people of LA or any of the other big cities can dictate what energy policy and air quality policy is going to be when nothing compares to their problems.

Nuclear power plants is one of solutions I support, but it’s the same thing, waste is created in the process so Greenies don’t want them. In France they’ve been safely using them for years.

One thing is certain we can’t let people who believe in global warming destroy our free society by letting a few cites with some smog problems dictate energy and economic policy to the rest of us. Oil, natural gas and coal in combination with the other useful alternative energy sources can and should be used but this straw man called global warming needs to be burned at the stake because man isn’t causing climate change. 

Thomas Freidman's "Global Weirding" op-ed is not just Weird but Worse

Click on the link below to view Thomas Freidman’s New York Times op-ed if you dare:

Global Weirding is Here

My big problem with Freidman is his big problem with oil, natural gas and coal energy. He goes on and on about how we need renewable energy sources and more investment in new technology for other forms of energy. He says we need to invest in it because it will help us depend less on oil imports from the Arabs but at the same time he doesn’t want us to drill or explore for our own oil, natural gas or coal in this country. I’m all for new investment in the renewable energy but I’m also a realist and understand basic economics.

From the research I’ve seen the best laid estimates for how much all these wonderful new energy technologies produce today is 7% of our total energy needs. The cost related to achieve that 7% are astronomically higher than you can imagine. This number includes, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric and bio-fuels. We must drill for more of our own oil and natural gas here in the States, off shore and in Alaska. More clean coal must be used to help our energy needs as well. Oil and natural gas are still the cheapest forms of energy to produce until the technology and the economics of the renewabl's catch up.

Even in the best case scenario 20 to 30 years from now we’ll still be a nation powered by oil, gas and coal. People who know nothing about drilling and mining have no idea how highly regulated both have become over the last 20 years and how it does little or no damage to the environment when they do.

As for the global warming question:

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not pollution and Global Warming has nothing to do with pollution. The average person has been misled and is confused about what the current Global Warming debate is about, greenhouse gases. None of which has anything to do with air pollution. People are confusing Smog, Carbon Monoxide (CO) and the pollutants in car exhaust with the life supporting, essential trace gas in our atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Pollution is already regulated under the Clean Air Act and regulating Carbon Dioxide (CO2) will do absolutely nothing to make the air you breath "cleaner". Regulating Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions through either 'Carbon Taxes', 'Cap and Trade' (Which Freidman supports) or the EPA will cause energy prices (electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, propane, and heating oil) to skyrocket.

The facts are in and the facts are that the data the scientists have used to base their global warming argument on are false, prefabricated and misleading. The only thing I do agree with in his piece is that it’s time for the scientists to give us factual supported data and if they don’t have it they must go back to the drawing board to make a more honest assessment about climate change. For now it’s all bunk and Al Gore hot air.

31,000 Scientist said the same 2 years ago when they signed a Petition saying Global Warming was a fraud but nobody was paying attention.

Click below to read about the Petition:

Scientists Sign Petition Denying Global Warming

Oh by the way... maybe if Freidman holds his breath long enough he won't release any CO2 into the atmosphere. Planet Earth is Saved, Whew!