Alive Quote by Howie Carr

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are…

— Nigel Lawson

“Putting solar photovoltaics into cloudy cities is like putting wind turbines in places where there is little wind!”

— Steven Magee

In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome.

— Michael Shellenberger

“Wind turbines typically fail in abnormally high wind speeds, as that is when they are most stressed.”

— Steven Magee

We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't…

— Van Jones

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 square kilometers…

— Mark Z. Jacobson

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 wind turbines…

— Joseph J. Romm

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous.…

— David J. C. MacKay

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy…

— Roger Helmer

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

— Tim Yeo

The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three…

— Ezra Levant

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and…

— Lamar Alexander