Is Don Alexander Of The Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency Using Even A "Thimble" Full Of Brain Power????

Well here we go again.  After more than a decade we are faced with more onslaught in NNY from the industrial wind hucksters! 

This time it is the Galloo Island wind proposal that is being resurrected from the dead  that previously failed.  Fewer turbines this time but much taller around 600 ft. 

And I don’t give a hoot about what Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency (JCIDA) chairman Don Alexander says with his asinine “thimble theory” of visual impact.  This will be a visual disaster for Eastern Lake Ontario viewscapes.

Beyond the visual issue, Alexander and the JCIDA needs to review a little history before they squander any taxpayer dollars to give a break to any wind developer. 

So let’s take a look at reality. 

Start by reviewing the chart below for of U. S. sources of electric generation.  This chart is from the US Energy Information Administration from 2012.  Here is the stark and absurd reality about wind energy.   You can see wind energy in 2012 contributed about a paltry 3.4%.  All renewables including wind, but other than hydro contributed a little over 5%.

 

Now the wind industry likes to make a lot of fan fair about this number.  But let’s look at it a different way and use a little reality and critical thinking. 

This means that about 95% of U.S. electrical generation comes from other reliable sources that we have depended on for many decades. I recognize that these other sources have their own environmental issues, but at least they are dependable sources or electric power that can reliably meet demand, and have proven so over a long long history.

Wind energy on a commercial scale in the U. S. has been around and heavily and disproportionately supported by the tax payer since the early 1980s.   This is 2015.  Apparently wind is now providing about 4% of U.S. electric generation. 

 So in the span of three and a half decades ( 35 years ) wind energy still after all that time and after lame exaggerated promises year after year can still only put out 4% of U. S. electric generation.   

And keep in mind that is not  generation that can be relied upon when needed.  It is at the whim of the weather.  This is also  reflected in wind’s capacity factors that realistically range around 20% or less in NY State, or only 20% of its actual capacity.  Not to mention that it has had to use the tax subsidy crutch to do even this little bit of generation.

But there is another insidious hidden crutch wind energy has to use to promote its absurd propaganda.  Go back to the chart and note the 95% other electric generation sources provide.  And that would be…very reliably provided!

This reliable generation is the additional cover and crutch that allows wind energy to get away with the propaganda they regurgitate year after year to suck away your tax dollars and scam people like Alexander and the JCIDA who your would think would know better.  Apparently not!

Fact is, when you flip on your light switch and the light goes on, or you  charge your Iphone when needed, most of that energy, as the chart indicates, comes from reliable sources…NOT wind energy or even other renewables when you look at the big electric generation picture.  When you flip the switch for whatever reason, you don’t have a clue where it is coming from.  So when wind energy is idle or producing next to nothing due to the weather, you never know it, because the other reliable sources provide cover for wind.  

It’s a great scam for the wind industry. They spit out propaganda and never really have to be accountable.  The wind industry can get away with criticizing the environmental issues of fossil fuels, but the reality is, it is the same fossil fuels, even dirty coal, that are in effect providing cover for the wind industry scam.

This means the reliable sources are heavily propping up wind and wind NEVER has to be accountable for its absurd unreliable output.  And that is over three decades and propped up by your tax payer dollars to boot!  

If you actually depended on wind energy and hit the button on your microwave and nothing happens, you would realize how the wind scam works and be forced to think more critically.

If Alexander and the JCIDA won’t…then you need think critically.  Almost 4 decades and wind still only provides about 4% of electric generation in the U. S. 

 IT IS ABSURD!!!!

 Don Alexander’s “thimble” is more representative of wind energy’s output and reliability, and he and the JCIDA need to get a clue and should not give any wind developer even a thimble full of tax breaks to prop up their developments.  It also appears Alexander is not using a thimble's worth of brain power when addressing the wind issue and its tax breaks.

When you look at wind energy’s failure over three and a half decades to provide anything other than thimble full of generation, while being propped up by disproportionate tax subsidies, it is sheer financial recklessness  for Alexander and the JCIDA to consider tax crutches for wind development.  This would call into question what kind of financial judgment Alexander and the JCIDA are actually exercising on behalf of Jefferson County residents.

Financial Judgment???  Is Alexander actually willing to stake wind energy's proven dismal performance over decades, for tax breaks that will likely cost millions in local  property values in one of NY's most beautiful and environmentally sensitive settings?

Seems to me when you step back and look at the reality of wind power’s history and failures over decades, the Jefferson County tax payers should be furious and call for Alexander’s removal as well as any JCIDA member who votes to approve a PILOT for any wind developer scam.