The Liberty deniers on the left will enjoy this, particularly Senator Greene Shaheen the Renewable energy queen from New Hampshire.  Wind turbines require hydraulic fluid to work, and the kind used in the turbines in Minnesota has made a 3.3 million dollar investment in renewable power that much less efficient.  The turbines don’t work in the cold.  And one of the things Minnesota and New Hampshire have in common is 4-6 months of very cold weather.

You could add Oklahoma, Arizona, and Georgia to that list now.  Why was it we needed wind power again?

One solution is to install warmers to keep the hydraulic fluid, well, fluid, but those would have to run on electricity.  (guh?) You could also use natural gas heaters.  And of course you already need an alternate energy source with turbines anyway because wind can’t meet peak or demand periods or unpredictable lulls in the winds of change.  And then theirs the problem with bats, birds, noise, and a new power grid.

Wow, I’m convinced.  Lets cover the North Country with these things.  It’s nothing like Minnesota up by the Canadian border.  And to think…we could have just built Seabrook II and had a few extra CO2 free mega-watts of nuclear instead of paying one of the highest rates in the nation per KWH and funding it’s de-commissioning for decades.

We have no reason to be surprised.  Jeanne is a pro government Liberty-denier herself.  Rather than allow energy companies to spend their own profits on technology improvements or energy development projects that might actually work, (create jobs and growth–and electricity) she prefers to tax the crap out of them and us, to fund massive boondoggles (advocated by her campaign contributors) that have no hope of doing what she has been told they will, particularly after filtering them through her blessed bureaucracy.

But there are obvious parallels between government and wind power that attract her.  They are both extremely expensive, inefficient, have a painfully long and poor return on investment, are a constantly growing strain on available resources, they are ugly, require armies of lawyers to even get them going (if they ever do), and are forever in need of maintenance at taxpayer expense.  And then they still don’t deliver anything near what they promise, just like Jeanne Shaheen.