Joy Pullman: Wind Farms Don’t Just Hurt The Environment And Boost China, They’re Ugly As Sin

Recently, Hoosier Daniel Lee Not noted The Choice of policy The Midwest’s energy grid is becoming more costly and less reliable due to mandates for low-energy solar and wind, and a reduction in natural gas and coal. Federal regulators are trying to curb local opposition to eye-sore wind farms by forcing utilities to increase unreliable power.

“The Environmental Protection Agency is scrambling to enact the administration’s climate agenda,” Lee notes. “Rules and regulations currently being written could take local opposition out of the equation, giving state officials cover in overruling obstructive local wind-farm restrictions. Davos attendees may like this, but some Hoosiers won’t be happy.”

It’s a pattern happening across the United States. In early 2022, New York’s power grid operator predicted Blackouts are increasing as state power plants shut down and supply cut by environmentalist regulations. The North American Electric Reliability Corp. advised the West and Midwest to expect the same thing. In fall 2022, New England’s power grid operator Customers were advised to prepare for blackouts Natural gas shortages could lead to severe cold weather.

“A number of states have enacted mandates to eliminate carbon emissions from the grid in the coming decades, and the Biden administration has set a goal to do so by 2035,” The Wall Street Journal Not noted Last year (h/t Aaron Renn). The Journal provided many horrifying examples of how the U.S. political system has chosen to reduce energy affordability and reliability.

Midcontinent Independent System Operator, also known as MISO, oversees large regional grids that stretch from Louisiana to Manitoba, Canada. As a result economic pressures and efforts by utilities to move more quickly towards renewables to address climate changes, the coal- and natural gas-fired power plants that provide more than 13 gigawatts each are expected close by 2024. In the meantime, 8 gigawatts are being developed in the region for replacement supplies. MISO could experience a shortfall in capacity if more is not done to close this gap, NERC stated. MISO acknowledged that there is a potential discrepancy, but declined to discuss the reasons.

The United States follows Europe and California’s lead in adopting disastrous energy policies. This leads to frequent blackouts and brownouts that cause people to cut down trees to keep warm during cold winters. It should be noted, however, that many people die from power outages, including the elderly, young and sick. Reliable power is essential for emergency services, hospitals, nursing homes, as well as nursing homes.

Atop all these reasons to eschew wind farms, Lee notes another top concern of locals forced yet again to absorb the high costs of rich people’s fantasies: Wind farms are not only noisy and destructive to local habitats, they’re ugly as sin.

“Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry may bask in fawning headlines, but Hoosiers won’t be able to escape the sight of wind turbines or solar arrays as easily as he escapes Davos on a jet. These eyesores will be permanent features of daily life, along with — potentially — seasonal energy shortfalls,” Lee notes.

Wind farms’ brute ugly exterior should be considered a further strike against them. Wind turbines are made of slave labor. China empower China controls the majority of rare-earth minerals and mines them in terrible work conditions. It is difficult to build the equipment needed for wind farms. The environment is being damaged.

One of the biggest concerns is, Particularly At the local level, how noisy, ugly, and degrading wind farm are. I can’t help but imagine my childhood in flatland country being surrounded by these ugly turbines every time I pass a windfarm. You can hear the wind roaring by and the turbines making a constant machine hum. It’s hard to imagine anyone living peacefully beside that. The answer: They don’t.

A PBS affiliate reported 2018:

In places like Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont where industrial wind turbine projects have recently been introduced, residents have reported symptoms such as nausea, sleep disorders, fatigue, and increased stress that they account to a low-frequency hum — a combination of audible bass sounds and inaudible vibrations — generated by the turbines. One example An air traffic controller said he made a near fatal error after experiencing stress and insomnia following the installation of a windturbine near Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Wind farms can be a nuisance, sometimes stretching for miles along a once beautiful landscape of sky and trees. Even plain landscapes, such as the flatlands of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, where I’ve seen the wind farms ravage, would be far more beautiful without these postmodern forests of hideous white giants ceaselessly menacing the sparse population.

Beauty is important. Beauty is an essential part of life. Beauty affects people’s happiness, and the people’s pursuit of happiness is one of the inalienable rights acknowledged in our Declaration of Independence. It is not an insignificant item on the ledger, along with money, power, false prophecies about doom.

Sometimes beauty can be used for deceit, but sometimes its beauty or ugly side can reveal its moral qualities. Wind farms can be ugly. In this case, it’s a leading indicator of all their other evils.

Rural and poor people should also be able to gaze up at the sky, sun, and sea and appreciate their beauty. So do the fishermen and the residents of Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod, where offshore wind farms are now being constructed.

The same goes for the birds, fish, and whales whose habitats and lives are endangered. Defeated In the pursuit of high-quality power, whose reliability also puts lives at risk, These creatures are not worthy of seeing their natural habitats degraded into an industrial wasteland by machines built by starving children and sent to dirty mines.

People don’t like wind farms. This gut feeling is a sign that wind turbines are dangerous and wasteful. But clean nuclear plants can fit in a school bus. There is no reason to choose wind turbines over nuclear power. This includes hatred for the natural world, which also includes humanity.

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