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1. Nobody is actually "benefiting" from wind and solar. They remain trivial, since they have...
Sat May 7, 2016, 11:40 AM
May 2016

...extremely poor capacity utilization. The entire so called "renewable energy" business in this country and every country is an expensive failure.

The fastest growing, by far, source of electrical energy in the United States is dangerous natural gas.

The entire wind industry production as opposed to the lie it puts forth about (peak) "capacity" in this country despite years of praise for it, didn't even match 35% of the increase in the use of dangerous natural gas over the last 10 years.

It is losing ground on dangerous fossil fuels, and in fact, the entire so called "renewable energy" industry which is not sustainable nor economically viable without massive subsidies - most benefiting the rich at the expense of the poor - is nothing but a fig leaf for the gas industry.

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