I’m grateful to a reader who sent me this link to WUWT.

The three biggest lies told about wind power are:-

  • It is enviro friendly.  Try telling that to the tens of thousands of native birds sliced up each year by those twirling blades in Australia.
  • The turbine’s useful life is thirty years.   In fact, most have worn out after twenty years and as the following article indicates, some fail to make it even to ten years.  The proponents of wind power use the thirty year example to justify their false claims of economy.
  • Actual production never gets anywhere near ‘plated’ production but it is the ‘plated’ production which Labor/Labour politicians use to falsely claim their state or country is generating X percent of its total electricity from wind powered plants.
Here’s a useful table from WUWT.  It is included in an article written by a New Zealander who lives in Wellington.
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It’s no wonder South Australia’s power supply is stuffed.
This tells you all you need to know about the hot air and bullshit associated with the ‘wind power’ scam.  The ratio of actual to theoretical (plated) production ranges from a paltry 19% to a pathetic 28%.  It’s just another version of the computer model scam. 
(These guys will tell you their cars can to 240kph because that’s what printed on the speedo but, with the foot hard down on the accelerator, the best they can get out of their clapped out Toyotas is 60kph.