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by IAmWorried 1512 days ago
Windmills? They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They kill all the birds. They ruin your landscapes. Yet, the environmentalists love the windmills. I’ve been preaching this for years. The windmills. I had them way down. The windmills are the most expensive energy you can have, and they don’t work. They last a period of 10 years and by the time they start rusting and rotting all over the place nobody ever takes them down. They just go onto the next piece of prairie or land and destroy that. It’s incredible.
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Also we have newer ways of processing grain -- so windmills are really not the solution they were 100 or 200 years ago. Most of them are made of wood though -- so they are pretty eco when they decay.
This diatribe is meaningless without a comparison to an alternative and its trade offs.
I believe this is a direct quote from our former president