Tucker Predicts the Downfall of the Windmill Industry

[@TheMoodyLoners]

Without direct subsidy from taxpayers, no one would ever erect a windmill farm.

[@yolandascholten2012]

Who’s gonna pay for the removal? And where will the rubbish go? And who’s gonna pay for going back to what we had? ….. YOU the taxpayer!

[@steel12city17cowgirl]

AGAIN!!!

[@TheMoodyLoners]

@@yolandascholten2012 When the government does something with taxpayer money that you'd never do with your own, odds are they're doing something really stupid and wasteful.

[@barrettorth8413]

@@yolandascholten2012 That's one of the worst aspects of this whole debacle. They don't last near as long as promised, and they're made of non-recyclable materials. There are literal windmill graveyards all over the country with mountains of rotting fiberglass blades; in some places they've resorted to burying them just to eliminate the eyesore. It's a complete travesty.

[@miraforeman7567]

@@barrettorth8413 in addition, w/mills need to work, full time, for 20 years, to pay for themselves. They barely last 20 years. 30% of our energy bills goes to corporations to build them. Anyone else starting a business, has to go to the bank.

[@bbear1971]

They are hurting the marine life and all the birds. I call windmills STUPIDITY.

[@adale4470]

Hutterite’s love them

[@nemesisnick66]

solar farms are way worse for birds than windmills lol

[@douca1]

YES! Those things are horrible. I'm glad solar companies are going out of business. It is a huge scam and is killing wildlife.

[@yolandascholten2012]

The whales!

[@anthonydallarosa8314]

You sound like an ACTUAL scientist

[@brentiers]

If the government is telling you it's a good idea, you can be very certain it's an awful idea.

[@RocketRenton]

UK Government are going ahead with this idea, at great taxpayer's expense.

[@chriszaiser]

The whole green scam, well, it's a scam.

[@tarstarkusz]

The biggest scam around "green" is in this context, it has no meaning whatsoever. Green literally doesn't mean anything. There is no "body" who decides what can be called green and by what metric green is measured like "Energystar" compliance.

[@_Gilles_]

It's time to end it

[@pauldavids7167]

Yesterday !

[@tomwinterfishing9065]

The whole government thing, well, it’s a heist!

[@Irishherbs]

Did you ever see a postcard of Ireland's beautiful hills? Not anymore!

[@yoshit9819]

The people that pushed it and got approval (with kickbacks) from politicians, don't care if they shut it down. They've made their billions.

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

😢

[@_Knowledge_Is_Power]

If you drive from Houston, south towards Mexico border. They’re everywhere and HALF of them are rusted and not working!

[@rhondaasklund601]

Yep, I live in Houston

[@robertkaspert4092]

The blades can't be recycled.

[@HollyMoore-wo2mh]

Look also around Corpus Christi. ALSO look at what CA does on Interstate 40 into CA. All over the place... not all working either.

[@trojanthedog]

Wow! A full half were working. Mostly it's far less than that.

[@_Knowledge_Is_Power]

@@trojanthedog Unfortunately driving on the road you can only see what’s rusted and not working and beyond that the windmills go far for miles from major roads. I can ONLY imagine it’s the same not being able to see it for miles inland.

[@csauders7047]

My daughter and SIL haul these things for a living. She says they are a total scam. I asked her how they are recycled when they quit working and she laughed. She said, “They don’t recycle them. They bury them in the ground.”

[@bayricker]

It takes 10,000 acres of solar panels to equal the power of a single nuke plant on 50 acres. On a sunny day.

[@hanswallner2188]

And how much acres does it need to mine the ore to get the plant running.... ohhhhh, you never thought about that? Nuclear power cost about 10 times more per kWh than wind or solar power, if you use true figures, and not ridiculous faked LCOE figures that do not represent the true overall costs.

[@donquijote6030]

And that is exactly why we should reject the fever dreams of leftist environmentalism. They would kill millions of innocent men, women, children, and animal in the name of their foolish cause.

[@Maryland_Kulak]

They were going to put about a dozen wind mills on my mountain too. We fought it and won for now. Short Mountain in West Virginia. Sebastian Gorka was my neighbor until he recently sold his mountain cabin. Anyway, Tucker’s neighbor is right. They were going to blast the hell out of the mountain to build access roads. The trucks that carry the wind turbines need huge roads with wide turns and switchbacks. The destruction of habitat is obscene. Raptors, bears, coyotes and bobcats live there. They deserve to have a place to live too.

[@paintedlady4589]

Windmills and ground solar panels are a blight on the earth.

[@quigleyjones9583]

I completely agree, Ugly! Look at the ground under the windmills and solar farms. Dry cracked soil that erodes away. And the windmills heat up the soil and kill birds, that are sucked into the draft of the turbines hitting the blades.

[@adrian_sanchez]

Drive by them, you will see that some are spinning and some not even though they are facing the same direction….its all a scam

[@MattH-l3i]

Actually, they shut them off when there is less of a demand for power to the grid.

[@MattH-l3i]

That aside though, i still think that windmills are a rubbish idea for power generation.

[@MattH-l3i]

@@nf4833 look up “the problem with wind energy” by real engineering

[@MattH-l3i]

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[@MattH-l3i]

@@nf4833 the youtube dictatorship won’t let me comment

[@yesher12]

As a Texan, I think it is shameful what the windmill industry has done to my beloved South Plains and parts of the panhandle. There are windmill graveyards scattered about but it looks as though the blades will last longer than my children's children!

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

😢

[@joannleichliter4308]

True. They cannot be recycled or otherwise reduced back to their original materials.

[@anthonydallarosa8314]

They probably will. If we wake up soon enough they might serve as a monument to our hubris. ❤

[@rjay7019]

It's awful here in West Texas 😢 after I moved here, they added 150 more. There's a huge blade graveyard of blades near Sweetwater. And near Abilene they are building a solar farm.

[@gmjent5671]

Didn’t T Bonne Pickens change his mind on wind and declare it a scam? Asking for a friend

[@lorim5289]

Windmill fields in Calif have been defunct for years- everyone should have learned from us

[@lynnoettl5996]

A windmill cannot even produce enough power to create itself.

[@hanswallner2188]

Why do you post such lies? A windmill produce the power that was necessary for building it within 3 to 6 month, but works 15 to 25 years.

[@halffast7799]

@@hanswallner2188 not true at all.

[@NashRambler]

A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. It takes an average of 7-12 years before you realize a profit. Windmills kill birds. They are noisy. The blades cannot be recycled. Their life cycle is about 25 years. Windmills are not a good choice for energy.

[@jamminwrenches860]

​@@hanswallner2188unfortunately everything we know about wind power is told through a lens that only promotes it. The actual green impact is negligible at best. Anytime we look accurately at it's carbon footprint, cost of operation and uptime then the savings are not there. A scrubbed coal plant proved more efficient and reliable. Any energy storage for wind completely decimates the green argument with it's own similar problems. It just doesn't work.

[@zeroceiling]

@@hanswallner2188 In 2019, Germany wrote off $1.9 Trillion dollars worth of wind turbines. By the way, there is also a large cost of decommissioning of these things..before you can drag them out of their location.

[@martinavaslovik3433]

Many years ago when I lived in California I drove through huge areas filled with wind turbines, and not a single one of them was turning.

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

😮😢

[@joydebra1954]

Those windmills are extremely loud. They use gallons of motor oil. Our landfills down here in Texas are FULL of those things because they don't last very long. We're actually running out of anywhere left to put the worn out crap. Solar "farms" are just as useless and damaging.

[@rickstrandberg6398]

People think the windmill is clean energy, how wrong they are! 300 tons of iron to make 200 tons of steel and the base is hundreds and. Hundreds of concrete truck loads

[@audreym3777]

And oil for the motors inside…

[@hanswallner2188]

Luckily thermal powerplants are the much better energy, as they do not require any ressources and are powered by magic You people represent a level of dumbness that is truly frightening.

[@cze33e]

sure, but if you use electric concrete trucks, it all evens out. /s

[@rkersch]

@@cze33e. I’m presume that’s a joke?

[@randysmith9841]

@@rkersch Even Stevie Wonder can see that's a joke

[@royrudy]

Buffalo Ridge, MN is one of the first windmill farms. Soon after the towers were installed and ready to go the owners discovered they needed to install transfer substations. Buffalo Ridge wind Farm was decommissioned in 2022

[@Swalley311]

Never sell land. It's just about the only asset worth anything.

[@TraciBradley-i8k]

We used to be able to maintain our old clunkers ourselves

[@om-om-om.]

Society needs more WISDOM and less POWER/GREED driven NETWORKS of evil.

[@QueenAlyss1]

It's coming. God is getting them all.

[@jcr2147]

My nephew was told he will not have a job In September, he does maintenance on wind towers in Oklahoma and Texas

[@xxdomixx1085]

At least he has a supervisor that tells him early instead of just a 2 week notice.

[@jcr2147]

@@xxdomixx1085 he is a supervisor

[@sandrajones2184]

I am a lobsterman here in Maine I could say alot about this. Alot of money will be wasted they have already littered our mountains and rural lands in our state now our waters will be contaminated with them ,hey Tucker I would love to go fly fishing on the Rapid with you I been going there since the late 80's (BB) before bass Dick Hartford was alive then and the dam keeper live there all year round great fishing still not bad take care Paul J.

[@MrVanson317]

We have them in MN & I never see them turning 🤬🙏🇺🇲

[@mitchelldarnell5334]

Totally ballony , don't last, can't be repaired, do nothing when the wind doesn't blow, left to rot, freeze up in the winter time. Not one thing is good. Huge money grab for the investors..

[@gailjohnson7406]

Please go see the 1000's of windmills in upper California... not one (as far as the eye can see in both directions) are working... no trees so you can clearly see all the broken blades laying all over the ground. Cal found out as soon as the maintenance warranty ran out that Cal could not afford to keep the windmills going. Then the gov blamed it on the birds and that was their excuse for shutting them down. The local radio station had a man call in and explain how he has been walking his dog there everyday and has never seen one dead bird. How much did these 1000's of windmills cost the taxpayers?

[@svbetweendreams]

I used to work for a tugboat company that transported numerous windmills from NY to Maine. There's no telling what that cost alone.

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

OSW and any government officials will never tell us the true cost of just 1 wind turbine

[@Brett235]

My wife and I flew to California then to Washington to see my son. Along that flight to California I saw hundreds of acres of windmills and solar power plants. I never realized how many windmills there are. In Arkansas they're putting thousands of solar panels on farmland. It's crazy.

[@hanswallner2188]

And every windmill and every solar installation produces cheap and environmentally friendly power, saving valuable fossile ressources that would otherwise needed to be mined, transported and burned, but some people seem to still not understand that.

[@headscrewedonright9030]

@@hanswallner2188 It doesn't benefit us as comsumers. My electric has never gone down because of solar farms. It's a joke.

[@Brett235]

@@hanswallner2188 from what I understand is that it costs millions of dollars from start to finish one of those windmills. Just the cost of transportation of one is around $250,000. That doesn't include erecting it. The motor alone costs in the hundreds of thousands to maintain. Is it really worth it in the long run?

[@baneverything5580]

Look up "HAIL SOLAR FARM."

[@christownsend7602]

It takes 300 cubic yards of concrete, 1000 tons for just one windmill mill base.

[@mtamech535]

That's up from 500 tons...then again, they keep making them bigger. Concrete creates a lot of co2, iirc.

[@christownsend7602]

@mtamech535 that was just from the sight I looked at. I am sure, it varies, but the point is it damages the land and makes it not usable for anything else. Not to mention the 30 or 40 cement trucks hauling the stuff and the equipment used to dig the hole and so on.

[@mtamech535]

@@christownsend7602 trust me, I’m on your side. We fought them off from our land 13 years ago and I’m still hoping they don’t come back. They make me sick when I drive by them and give me headaches.

[@alwaysright3718]

In Australia they are cutting down all the remnant forests to put up these useless windmills...

[@WildDisease72]

These government projects already always taxpayer operating expenses

[@gymbob79]

Windmills have destroyed the Wyoming landscape. It’s disgusting.

[@akraix182]

Cash for clunkers also got rid of older simple cars that people could fix up, it also helped the Chinese part market. Complete scam

[@operator6471]

on every off-shore wind turbine is a diesel generator.

[@jensjesfjeld6238]

Guess what? There's one inside EVERY wind turbine generator. No joke.

[@hanswallner2188]

Yes, as every kid knows that has done even two minutes of research you need that for emergency power in case of maintenance and preventing corrosion if disconnected from the grid for a longer period of time to spin the blade a few times every few days to prevent the ball bearings from corrosion. But some morons are even not understanding this absolutely basic fact.

[@beatOmaniac]

There is not a diesel generator just to start up the turbine it is used and then placed to the next one.

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

Scotlands are operating a net negative because of generators to make sure they don’t sneeze during colder times.

[@operator6471]

@@hanswallner2188 and every time the wind stops blowing. On land, they use energy back from the grid - a turbine can never be without power for onboard systems.

[@JS-oy6nn]

I spent 9 months in Maine in 1999 working on the Maritimes NorthEastern project. We built a natural gas compressor station in Richmond Maine from start to finish. It was crazy the attention and support that project got from the communities. Absolutely stunning country and great people who talk a little funny 😂 but they said the same about my WV accent.

[@chrisnivo]

I heard the offshire windmills are killing whales as the underwater noise is disrupting their ecolocation abilities

[@ericschmuecker348]

Lol. Better fack check that. I'd like to see how they came to that conclusion.

[@yolandascholten2012]

Chris, I’ll second that. The erecting disrupts their sonar system and later they become confused navigating the concrete piles while feeding.

[@randylahey8207]

​@@ericschmuecker348it's quite true. They mess with the sonar communication of multiple whale breeds, and can leave babies stranded from their mothers. Maybe you should fact check instead of writing a smarmy comment without any info...

[@WildIslander]

I work on the shoreline about 5 miles from the windmills being erected. I can hear the percussion of whatever they use to drive down into the sea floor. Imagine what the whales can hear under water.

[@ericschmuecker348]

@WildIslander Gee! Imagine what oil rigs have sounded like. Never bothered anything before. Let's not imagine, guess, or pretend. Ask a whale how sound kills.

[@paulamensing1664]

We have them in San Joaquin county, California , the birds of prey would crash into them

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

😢

[@mathiasringle6972]

Yes, windmills kill a lot of birds!

[@c0c0asauce]

Like most green energy, small scale is often good and large scale is not. A solar roof on a Walmart or a residential house can make sense.

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

BOEM own documents state OSW will make little or no impact on OSW

[@jeffreyoneill6439]

I just read the cost of dismantling one is 400-600,000AU.

[@jannasteele3438]

The windmills do tear up all the migrating birds, I am a Wildlife Biologist n have studied this a lot, plus they are messing w/all the beluga whales, messes w/their sonar talking to their mothers n the pings from the windmill messes w/them being able to talk to their moms n get stranded!!!!!

[@kjsgarden]

Interestingly, regarding the Cash for Clunkers program, it put many, many salvage yards out of business , or cut their business drastically, in the short time the program was in existence. My cousin had acquired 5 salvage yards over a couple decades hard work and had to shut down 2 of them. Thankfully he was able to keep going because of his multiple locations. One more casualty of the Obama era.

[@StJohnPaulXXIII]

Central and west Kansas those wings are moving but man they are rusted to death. Eyesore.

[@jeremywhitt7009]

A few years ago, I was doing some traveling across the states, and from Ohio to California, I seen maybe like 6 or 7 windmills actually turning...all the rest were completely still 🤔

[@Rychster]

Safe nuclear power! Wind turbines are a waste for long term security for energy consumption.

[@tarstarkusz]

Windmills actually work. They've been around more than a thousand years. Even 100 years ago, there were a lot of windmills on farms either generating electricity or lifting water. The monstrosities they are building today didn't exist 1000 years ago, but windmills most certainly did.

[@roystonmarshall5027]

Not producing electricity,..dear God how gullible are you...😮

[@kennyallen8828]

On a farm great. Not for our general power… silly AF

[@LisaDaidone-gf1gw]

They are not called wind mills. Which are in the Netherlands. These are offshore wind turbines. They are taller than the Empire State Building. One blade is size of a football field. The blade that broke in Vineyard Wind was fiberglass and now fiberglass is floating in our oceans

[@tarstarkusz]

@@LisaDaidone-gf1gw You will note I said: " The monstrosities they are building today didn't exist 1000 years ago, but windmills most certainly did." Conceptually, they are the same thing. The difference is scale. There is a real criticism of wind "turbines." One is that they are inefficient users of copper. IIRC, they need about 4x the copper per kw. This is largely due to scale. Grid level power generators are 700-900MW or so, while the wind "turbines" are more like 7mw, though the bigger ones generator more. The bigger it is, the more efficient it is. There are many other valid criticisms. But saying they don't work is not one of them.

[@cze33e]

And they cool the planet which is something no-one talks about.

[@ryanfreeman9766]

The storm season here in Iowa has done a number on many windmills here. I was out driving today and saw a few that got destroyed by storms.

[@gsftom]

“I’m usually right about these kinda things…”. That is my exact quote. I am not a genius, but I pay attention, have common sense and am also usually right abt things like this. Laughed out loud when you said this.

[@raemorgan8207]

Those huge windmills make a loud humming sound that is killing fish in the Ocean.

[@haridasification]

Wind energy is useless

[@miraforeman7567]

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[@Greg-ly2rz]

Many scenic areas of Maine have been ruined by these windmills. This in a state that banned roadside billboards decades ago.

[@jamesfranklin8871]

Heard a lot of bad things about those windmills

[@paulamensing1664]

They are probably really bad for the Eco system

[@tarstarkusz]

Windmills are one of the few "renewable" sources that actually work and have been around a long time. The problem isn't windmills, it's scale. Nobody ever tried to run more than a single farm or saw milll from a windmill.

[@marcuscostello5635]

​@tarstarkusz scale is the name of the game and they should have known how unfeasible it was from the jump

[@tarstarkusz]

@@marcuscostello5635 I'm not sure even at scale that it won't work. From what I read, windmills have an average EROI around 18 to 1. They have a much higher utilization rate than solar.

[@marcuscostello5635]

@@tarstarkusz even at scale, it won't work. The only answer is nuclear energy. All the solar and wind stuff is pure nonsense.

[@debrafiske2233]

They are NOT windmills, they are turbines....big difference!

[@georgedreisch2662]

Back in the mid2000’s, before we left Maine, Angus King was at the forefront of leading Maine down the bullsh*t windmill road. I expect he was well enriched…

[@TraciBradley-i8k]

I have deregulated energy in rural coastal Texas. The mills are on land and I can't see them.

[@CarbageMan]

Just remember, "clean" is and always has been a lie.

[@hkohler2482]

It's the kid from "A Christmas Story!" I'm glad he didn't shoot his eye out and he knows windmills suck!!

[@HollyMoore-wo2mh]

Is that who it was? I missed an intro. Kinda cool though.

[@CarbageMan]

If you damage the tip of a blade on a windmill, it's going to fly apart because the torque it develops will be out of balance.

[@halffast7799]

I live about a mile from a windfarm. Noisy eyesores.

[@davidstanworth5543]

Good show Tucker everything's a scam lately

[@MichaelCuthbertson-zl6in]

Awesome chat. Thankyou both.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Saltwater and windmills don't mix.

[@nightrunner1456]

THERE'S A DIESEL ENGINE INSIDE TO KEEP IT HEATED, IN COLD WEATHER!

[@sylvain5437]

1000 fois merci! Québec

[@HarryTwoDogs]

I became an electrical engineer because I knew nobody could ever tell me 2+2=5 when I did my job. That changed with the green revolution. I’m surrounded by young engineers who come out of school who are just fine with 2+2=5 as long as it “Saves the Planet.” We are doomed.

[@deantait8326]

Petrol Please

[@jeffrosati2570]

I drove through Palm Springs, CA last week. Very few of the hundreds (thousands?) of windmills were not even moving this time. Guess they stopped working since I last went to LA about 6-7 years ago.

[@snappertrx]

I used to do some work at a power plant at the base of Grapevine in Kern County. It produced 750 megawatts and, if you didn't know it was there, you could barely see it from the I-5, despite being out in the open. Meanwhile just a bit North East in the city of Tehachapi there are literally hundreds of wind turbines producing, I think it was 1.5-2.0 megawatts each. These aren't the giant ones you see in Texas or Oklahoma, they are a mix of smaller turbines and tiny ones. Do you know how much land 700+ wind turbines takes? Compared to the power plant, which was running 3 big natural gas steam turbines (with the possibility of 2 more) the wind turbines are a blight on nature and property. No one in their right mind would consider them as a replacement for "fossil fuels". (A little trivia: The power plant was featured as the ship yard in the Abrams Star Trek reboot, and I did have to go out there and do some work while they were prepping for filming. Pretty cool memories.)

[@glynnetolar4423]

Cash for Clunkers was a Democrat gift to the UAW. Don't ya think?

[@terryarndt3190]

I recently saw a video of a tornado destroying a windmill farm! I call that poetic irony!

[@jesseballard4753]

Wind mills decimated the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

[@A6Legit]

The Cleveland science center has a windmill that hasn't worked since 2019. Apparently it costs more than it's worth to fix so now they have a giant lawn ornament

[@michaeldufresne9199]

they wasted trillions to build them when they could built nuclear power plant

[@mjones1122]

Just south of Sweetwater, Texas is huge dumping ground for all the windmill components. The sign says they are waiting for recycling, wonder what it meant.

[@MichaelCuthbertson-zl6in]

I agree. You tube IS many of our news source! Best wishes from Australia.

[@kenbaily7252]

I've pulled loads from north back to texas foe refurbish of moter. Haul up there, then back and then back up there!!!! And start over!!! Trucks needed to move crane in and back out to another location. All the truck hours needed for 1 windmill over 10 yrs. Manufacturing of windmill, crane's, trucks, dozer ect.

[@mitchellholmes3285]

Great show TC I really like that guy. I live on a lake near 48 windmills that totally destroyed a mountain range in southern aroostook country. These windmills from my understanding have a 20 year life span and from what I have been the company that owns them just walks away when they have expired. It's also my understanding that 90% of the energy produced from this site alone goes to Cambridge Mass. Great deal for the residents of Southern Aroostook County to have a scenic area destroyed.

[@I_SuperHiro_I]

I love how he talks to regular dudes. I do this every weekend in my garage with the guys, and it sounds the same.

[@midwestkatie4]

Our very small Michigan town exploded in solar panel farms two years ago. Same deal.

[@DaveBegotka]

They destroyed my home in Mills County TX with a big fat wind turbine on top of my house and a high power line too close too....unsellable and almost unlivable

[@2stepper2000]

Iowa sucked to drive through , Now it’s a Nightmare 🎉

[@anglosaxon5874]

Plus the polluting the waterways from the road maintenance. Have a couple of 'wind farms' near me in England and they are off more than on! USELESS!

[@carynsommersdorf2453]

Just got back from England and the windmills are everywhere on these beautiful England farms. It's awful.

[@kennyallen8828]

Animals hate them and avoid being near. They also put off noise that is not pleasing

[@trojanthedog]

Also famous for killing thousands of birds especially raptors. Watch a new project get shut down to keep a rare finch, or frog or species of grass safe. Comes to windmills, suddenly the greenie left are silent.

[@omedahmed8259]

Once I travelled passed around a windmill farm approximately 5km stretch. Not a single one was spinning. The most spectacular technological fail I have ever seen in my life. Very sad

[@kn_ow]

FACT! This guest is wrong! There are hundreds of solar farms in Maine. Many of the farms are created by clear cutting forests! Much of the land has bad erosion once clear cut. (not to mention the wildlife habitats destroyed) The environmentalist raised hell when trees were to be cut down next to existing power lines for transmission lines from Canada. NOT a peep about the worse solar farms!!! I've worked on the construction of some the solar farms. The selective indignation is disgusting!

[@ronobrien7187]

A friend runs the boat for the techs monitoring the wind energy farm off Block Island RI. He says that they run about 30% of the time.

[@jeffmilks4501]

was just out on a beautiful lake looking at a mountain top with windmills all over them. Ridiculous.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

Everywhere that you see windmills, you see higher power bills.

[@pattimcgowan96]

I love you Tucker and I listen to you all the time because I trust you and I thank God for you 😊❤❤

[@ChrisMathieu83]

Hey Tucker! Just came on here to give you a like and a comment, because you're good shit! Love ya ❤️

[@basiclawprof]

Korean Power official gave me tours of the country's "Green Power Generation" facilities. Interesting. Lot's of info...until I asked about Cost and Return on Investment. Then Crickets. Still waiting for him to get back to me. These were personal tours (I'm nobody special but they thought I was much more important than I am) and he gave it his best shot.

[@janetconnors3113]

A small village, Cassopolis, Michigan many of the windmills were made there. It was happening some 20 years ago approximately. If you travel travel South on highway 31 from South Bend to Indianapolis there were so many windmill farms it was scary.

[@davids4754]

Ask anyone fishing this year things have changed out there

[@bryceeverett]

I was an agent for leasing for wind farm at one time and know a decent amount about the subject. 1. Leasing is unscrupulous in tactics. Lease the big ones if possible and then tell everyone that they might as well sign because they would be in the middle of it and might as well get paid because it’s happening. The say this well before they have enough land to have a project. 2. Don’t worry about them being trash. Many people will be very excited to remove them for the scrap value. 3. The concrete put into the ground for the anchor will never be removed. It’s a massive amount of concrete. 4. Turbines change weather patterns. They take energy from the atmosphere and stir the air causing changes in rain events. We have seen it first hand. 5. This clean energy drip oil from many to most turbines. Look at the stains on the pedestal. 6. Projects are net positive for being “clean energy” over the life of the project.

[@enochancient9931]

They must know something about the electricity

[@riotmakr]

There's a windmill 15 minutes from me that caught on fire 5+ years ago and it hasn't been replaced bc the farmer can't afford to pay for it.

[@computerbiscuit]

One of the worst things about windmills is the sun shadow they cast and the strobe effect. If I had to live next to that, I would be welding metal plates on a bulldozer.

[@TiffinyHarrington]

Every time we drive to northern Michigan we must drive 100 miles seeing nothing but those huge, ugly windmills, 1/3 of which are broken. And around us in SW lower Michigan, its solar farms. Thousands of acres.