Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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4. Wind energy is a bonanza for the natural gas industry...

... and all the people who make and install the expensive equipment required to integrate it into the grid.

Wind energy won't slow down our slide into global warming catastrophe enough to matter. It's a "feel good" distraction. The biggest conservation impact it has is that high electricity prices force people who are constantly living on the edge of financial ruin to use less electricity and buy less stuff, including some necessities like healthy food and medical insurance.

Affluent people don't care about the price of electricity or the cost of generating it themselves. They'll put solar panels on their roof and consider themselves "green."

The energy "transition" is a blatant lie. We are not transitioning away from fossil fuels. It's not a case of "perfection being the enemy of the good" because wind power is not good. It's just an alternate way of trashing the planet.

The only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely (which we need to do) and supporting eight billion people is nuclear power. That's just the way the math works out.

As a species we've backed ourselves into a corner.