Wind Turbines = Fossil Fuels!

An often overlooked fact is that wind energy relies almost exclusively on fossil fuels for their production, transportation, and operation.

Recent government energy policy has trended towards making wind energy seem more competitive: subsidizing wind to hide its cost, while raising the price of fossil fuels.

All this accomplishes is increasing the overall price of energy, which helps no one.
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[behrenspaul]

This is the least informed video I have ever seen. Of course wind turbines don't pop up by magic, neither do hydro stations, geothermal stations, gas turbines etc. Wind turbines generate the embodied energy required to make them within 6-12 months - which is the fastest of any type of energy. It takes a gas turbine two years to generate the same amount of energy as involved with it's construction. See the BWEA site for references. what about the huge subsidies the fossil fuel industry receives?

[cmoeha]

@Bebsch89

Remember, more than a half of all chairmen around the world dropped out from college, or even from high school. Maybe 'uneducated' people do the math?

[Peter5930]

@bigpchamber You Americans have certainly managed to build some ugly-ass wind farms, and I can see how those fast-spinning blades on old small-capacity turbines could cause motion sickness. I live near Whitelee Wind Farm, the second largest wind farm in Europe, and the big 2.3MW turbines in it are very unobtrusive and quite graceful. I see them whenever I walk my dog, and they don't bother me in the slightest.

[TheGoyanks]

@kingsofkingsjax it's proven that going green will provide more jobs then useing fossil fuels dip shit

[TheGoyanks]

@hornyforyourcunt you must have been dropped on your head when you were a baby because only stupid ass dip shits think that global warming is a myth

[TheGoyanks]

That is bull shit we need wind turbines sure we use oil and resources to make them but everything needs it but it will reduce the need for it we need solar we need hydro we need wind it is proven that it will create more jobs and it's 100% cleaner

[mtcox2779]

...and guess what happens when the world starts to be 25% or 50% renewable energy. Yes, you got it! The wind turbine steel is made with electricity (nucor) and transported by electric vehicles that get their power from the sun and hydro. Wind turbines in Denmark have "spinning reserve" from hydro in other parts of Scandinavia. We have a form of solar power which has effective storage for 8 days and can run all night or for a week of clouds. This can also, and easily, back up intermittent wind.

[TheFelix267]

OMG my teacher said that it would save fossil fules from going... It turnes out it just makes it WORSE!

[Horny4yourcunt]

There is no climate change and never was. The only green energy is the money paid to the government by corrupt 'shell companies' like Solindra to corrupt, lying politicians in the Democratic party who would enslave us like Obama. Can't take the heat, huh?

[Horny4yourcunt]

There is no climate change and never was. The only green energy is the money paid to the government by corrupt 'shell companies' like Solindra to corrupt, lying politicians in the Democratic party who would enslave us like Obama.

[amemy1]

All true, but the parts get recycled, and the energy in is far less than the energy out during manufacture.

[dusfermc]

@behrenspaul Not to mention coal ALSO has to be transported, using the same fossil fuel that the wind turbine. The difference is that when the wind generator makes electricity it isnt polluting like fossil fuels. Thumbs up to behrenspaul....