Typical windmill story. These things are going to save the world?
KSTP TV - Minneapolis and St. Paul - Cold keeps Minn. wind turbines from spinning
So now they have to heat the fluid. What kind of heat? I'll bet some kind of "fossil fuel". So now these windmills have their very own carbon footprint contributing to global warming.
Notice how they just glossed over the cost of these things? $300,000 each to supply electricity to 35 homes. I don't believe that number, but let's give it to them. $300,000 does not include the cost of all the future repairs and maintenance. And there's plenty. But that cost equals almost $8600 per home, under optimum conditions, plus the cost of maintenance and the cost of heating the fluid all winter. Not to mention, under normal conditions, they run only about half the time.
And they call this "green technology". I call it backwards.
You wanna buy one for your backyard, go ahead. But I don't want to pay taxes to pay for these stupid things just so we can feel better about using electricity.
