“Wind turbines typically fail in abnormally high wind speeds, as that is when they are most stressed.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. — Tim Yeo Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Governor Cooper talks about 'clean energy' and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by mandating offshore wind turbines, but ignores the actual detrimental effects… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course. — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to… — Roger Helmer Copy Share Image
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three… — Mark Z. Jacobson Copy Share Image
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Putting solar photovoltaics into cloudy cities is like putting wind turbines in places where there is little wind!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Today, 314,000 wind turbines supply nearly 4 percent of global electricity. And it will soon be much more. Ten million homes in… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I… — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
“The size of the “needed” transition to renewables is staggering. The world used more than 20,000 terawatt-hours of electricity19 in 2010, and… — Steve Goreham Copy Share Image
The rapidly spinning blades of wind turbines act like an apex predator that big birds never evolved to deal with. And because… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
“We must rein in temperature increases and help ensure that the most vulnerable can adapt. But today’s popular climate change policies of… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire… — Mike Bond Copy Share Image
In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape. — Joe Hockey Copy Share Image
I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
Deeper investment in green energy technology will create millions of high-paying American jobs that cannot be outsourced, rebuilding our nation's manufacturing economy,… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“and it was surely the case also that only machines built to so large a scale and of such pristine alloys could… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“It was not that Abbenay was short of power, not with her wind turbines and the earth temperature-differential generators used for heating;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
America is home to the best researchers, advanced manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in the world. There is no reason we cannot lead the… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
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