Trump Again Overblows Risks of Wind Power

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7. Hybrid gas/wind energy systems are better than coal...

... but that doesn't necessarily make them desirable.

Even if we quit coal for natural gas and install wind turbines we're not saving the world.

If coal and oil don't kill us, natural gas will, and there's plenty of natural gas available to destroy what's left of the natural environment as we know it.

Quitting fossil fuels won't be easy.

In some places people might chose nuclear power to support their high energy industrial consumer lifestyles. In other places people might choose a low energy solar and wind powered society that would look nothing like the consumer economy many affluent people now enjoy.

Or we can delude ourselves and build wind turbines that reduce our dependence on fossil fuels to some degree, but not enough to avoid global warming catastrophe, especially as billions of new consumers are incorporated into this world's high energy industrial economy.

I'm not going to be an enthusiastic supporter of giant wind projects just because Trump doesn't like them.

The environmental impacts of these projects are not negligible.