The PC World of Regulations and Wind Energy Considered
Not long ago, I was reading a report from the Federal Trade Commission which seemed to indicate that there are a lot of businesses that claim to be environmentally friendly, but in actuality cannot produce any empirical evidence proving that they really are.
But to that point I would like to call out wind energy.
That is to say I would like to point out that wind turbine alternative energy, is not nearly as environmentally friendly as we are led to believe.
And I have a number of reasons for coming to this conclusion.
First, it takes massive amounts of concrete and cement in the base of a large wind turbine tower to hold the thing up.
And when making cement and concrete it takes a lot of CO2.
It was recently estimated that the amount of CO2 used in the base of the concrete for a wind turbine generator would take 15 years to offset by the amount of energy the wind turbine generator would produce over the amount of CO2 exhausted from a coal-fired plant for the same amount of energy.
Well then, it looks as if wind turbine generation is not very environmentally friendly at all.
Further, it takes coking coal in the steel making process to build the tower.
And if someone is against coal mining, and the CO2 that comes from steelmaking, then they ought to have a problem with wind turbine generation towers which are 200 feet high and giant vertical tubes made of steel.
Are you beginning to see the problem with the politically correct world of regulations when it comes to alternative energy? Of course when something is considered to be environmentally friendly, that something should not be killing birds and bats either, but we know wind turbine generator blades do just that.
What I find interesting is that the Federal Trade Commission is willing to go after some companies who claim to be environmentally friendly, but due to politics will not go after some of the alternative energy exploits which are exploiting the global warming alarmist's trend of media support.
If we are going to have regulations of this type and fairness in marketing and advertising, then we need a level playing field across the board.
If we let one industry such as the wind energy business get away with something, but hold everyone else's feet to the fire, then we've developed an unlevel playing field, and we also live in hypocrisy in that case.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
But to that point I would like to call out wind energy.
That is to say I would like to point out that wind turbine alternative energy, is not nearly as environmentally friendly as we are led to believe.
And I have a number of reasons for coming to this conclusion.
First, it takes massive amounts of concrete and cement in the base of a large wind turbine tower to hold the thing up.
And when making cement and concrete it takes a lot of CO2.
It was recently estimated that the amount of CO2 used in the base of the concrete for a wind turbine generator would take 15 years to offset by the amount of energy the wind turbine generator would produce over the amount of CO2 exhausted from a coal-fired plant for the same amount of energy.
Well then, it looks as if wind turbine generation is not very environmentally friendly at all.
Further, it takes coking coal in the steel making process to build the tower.
And if someone is against coal mining, and the CO2 that comes from steelmaking, then they ought to have a problem with wind turbine generation towers which are 200 feet high and giant vertical tubes made of steel.
Are you beginning to see the problem with the politically correct world of regulations when it comes to alternative energy? Of course when something is considered to be environmentally friendly, that something should not be killing birds and bats either, but we know wind turbine generator blades do just that.
What I find interesting is that the Federal Trade Commission is willing to go after some companies who claim to be environmentally friendly, but due to politics will not go after some of the alternative energy exploits which are exploiting the global warming alarmist's trend of media support.
If we are going to have regulations of this type and fairness in marketing and advertising, then we need a level playing field across the board.
If we let one industry such as the wind energy business get away with something, but hold everyone else's feet to the fire, then we've developed an unlevel playing field, and we also live in hypocrisy in that case.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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