I write for the layperson, for the utility customer, the taxpayer and the voter. I write for all Americans EXCEPT those who would gain financially from making electricity more expensive or less reliable.
I have no direct power generation industry experience, nor do I have post graduate degrees in environmental science, imagineering or politics. All I have is a scientific and skeptical mind, a network of scientific thinkers, an utter lack of bias, a nose for fraud, and a desire to protect and revive the principles that made the US a great nation.
Wind energy is thought of as clean and green because it purports to reduce emissions and other byproducts of coal, crude oil, nuclear or natural gas energy at an affordable price. It seems as simple as that. And if it were, it would simply come to pass, just as simply as drinking water comes to pass to avert dehydration. There would be no subsidy for drinking water, no mandated water intake, no tax abatement for gulping gallons of it.
Every kilowatt hour we generate from windmills is a kilowatt hour we don't need to produce by burning coal. We can even drive our cars on kilowatt hours from wind instead of perpetuating our 'addiction to oil."
The idea is simple, and those vested in wind energy's success know that simple ideas cannot be dissuaded in the public's mind by critically complicating them. It takes more compelling and equally simple ideas to overthrow them. For example, if I told you battery storage of electricity has technical barriers that limit the practical range and payload of electrified personal transportation, most of us would not latch on. But if I said that promoters of wind energy are greedy liars who think of Americans as lazy and stupid and, in fact, DEPEND on it - that might provoke you to read on, right?
Both statements are absolutely true, and my challenge is to find ways to reach ALL AMERICANS, making sure they are interested enough in not being scammed that they become keen to the parlor tricks being used to sap our economy in exchange for non-delivery on false promises. Such is the story of wind energy - not just in America - but finally in America - where government has traditionally resisted changing the diapers of commercial interests, let alone bottle feeding them. Not only can we learn from green energy failures in other nations, we can learn that dismissing the laws of physics that led to those failures places us squarely in the lazy and stupid category or wishful thinkers.
It really is simple: To avoid being scammed by greedy green capitalists, we must individually and collectively remember a simple rule: Scientifically sound solutions must precede the prosperity that flows from them.
