13 Jun 2025
Calling power-generating windmills “bullshit” and a scenic disaster, President Donald Trump said this week his administration would not approve any more development of wind energy except in cases of emergency.
“We’re not going to let windmills get built because we’re not going to destroy our country any further than it’s already been destroyed,” Trump said. “You go and look at these beautiful plains and valleys and they’re loaded up with this garbage that gets worse and worse looking with time…What bullshit this is.”
The National Desk posted his profane dislike of the towering wind turbines on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uyc3He5VVM&embeds_referring_eu...
Trump made the comments during a speech Thursday ahead of his policy to overturn California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles.
It’s not the first time the president has criticized wind energy. Shortly before taking office in January, he told reporters, “We’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built. They don’t work without subsidy. … You don’t want energy that needs subsidy.”
On the campaign trail, he vowed to end offshore wind production, spoke out against unsightly turbines near his golf course in Scotland, and has blamed turbines for deaths of birds and whales.
His latest remarks signal Trump may be getting even tougher than the executive order he issued on January 20, the day he took office, that halts approvals of new wind projects, but described the policy as temporary.
It stated further wind development couldn’t proceed until the government could study their costs and “the environmental impact of onshore and offshore wind projects upon wildlife, including, but not limited to, birds and marine mammals.”
Full article and video at the following weblink:
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/06/13/trump-says-no-more...
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CO2 IS AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL GAS/INGREDIENT FOR GROWING FLORA AND FAUNA; NET ZERO IS A SUICIDE PACT
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-an-absolutely-v...
By Willem Post
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The IPCC, etc., has dubbed CO2 as having magical global warming power, based on its own “science”
The IPCC, etc., claims, CO2 acts as Climate Control Knob, that eventually will cause runaway Climate Change, if we continue using fossil fuels.
CO2, just 0.042% in the atmosphere, is a weak absorber of a small fraction of the available low-energy IR photons.
CO2 has near-zero influence on world surface temperatures.
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Governments proclaimed: Go Wind and Solar, Go ENERGIEWENDE, go Net zero by 2050, etc., and provided oodles of subsidies, and rules and regulations, and mandates, and prohibitions to make it happen.
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Net-zero by 2050 to-reduce CO2 is a super-expensive suicide pact, to increase command/control by governments, and enable the moneyed elites to get richer, at the expense of all others, by using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media to spread scare-mongering slogans and brainwash people.
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Ignore CO2, because greater CO2 ppm in atmosphere is an absolutely essential ingredient for: 1) increased green flora to increase fauna all over the world, and 2) increased crop yields to better feed 8 billion people.
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They deny the Little Ice Age, support fraudulent computer temperature projections, and are using the USAID-subsidized Corporate Media to scare-monger/control/brainwash the people, already for 35 years
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At about 30% annual W/S electricity on the grid, various costs increase exponentially.
The weather-dependent, variable/intermittent W/S output, often too-little and often too-much, creates grid-disturbing difficulties that become increasingly more challenging and increasingly more costly/kWh to counteract, as proven by the UK and California for the past 5 years, and Germany for the past 10 years, and recently in Spain/Portugal.
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All have “achieved” near-zero, real- growth GDPs, the highest electricity prices/kWh in the EU, and stagnant real wages for almost all people, while further enriching the jet-setting elites who live in the poshest places.
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Their angry, over-taxed, over-regulated native populations are further burdened by the elites bringing in tens of millions of uninvited, unvetted, uneducated, inexperienced poor folks from all over; a chaotic, culture-clashing burden the native populations never voted for.
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All that W/S subsidy money uglified the countryside, killed fisheries, tourism, viewsheds, etc.
But the climate is not any different, even though, atmosphere CO2 increased from 280 ppm in 1850 to 420 ppm in 2025, 50% in 175 years.
During that time, world surface temps increased by about 1.5 C +/- 0.25 C, of which:
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1) Urban heat islands account for about 65% (0.65 x 1.5 = 0.975 C), such as about 700 miles from north of Portland, Maine, to south of Norfolk, Virginia, forested in 1850, now covered with heat-absorbing human detritus, plus the waste heat of fuel burning. Japan, China, India, Europe, etc., have similar heat islands
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/16/live-at-1-p-m-eastern-shock-...
2) CO2 accounts for at most 0.5 C, with the rest from
3) Long-term, inter-acting cycles, such as coming out of the Little Ice Age,
4) Earth surface volcanic activity, and other changes, such as from increased agriculture, deforestation, especially in the Tropics, etc.
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BTW, the 1850 surface temp measurements were only in a few locations and mostly inaccurate, +/- 0.5 C.
The 1979-to-present temp measurements (46 years) cover most of the earth surface and are more accurate, +/- 0.25 C, due to NASA satellites.
Any graphs should show these accuracy bands.
The wiggles in below image are due to plants rotting late in the year in the Northern Hemisphere, emitting CO2, plants growing early in the year, consuming CO2, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-physics-behind-the...
By Bjorn Lomborg
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Madrid knew solar and wind power were unreliable but pressed ahead anyway.
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As I wrote in these pages in January, the data have long shown that environmentalists’ vision of cheap, reliable solar and wind energy is a mirage.
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The International Energy Agency’s latest cost data continue to underscore this: Consumers and businesses in countries with almost no solar and wind paid, on average, 11 cents/kWh in 2023; but at 10% W/S costs increase to 15 c/kWh; at 20% W/S, 19 c/kWh; at 30%, 23 c/kWh, etc.
These numbers surely are an understatement
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Germany and the UK pay about 40 cents, nearly 3 times the US rate and nearly 4 times China’s.
No wonder both have become uncompetitive in world markets.
Adding tens of millions of illegal, unskilled, culture-clashing misfits, from all-over, is no help;
Also o help in the US, France and the UK.
NATO spending 3 times more on defense is no help either
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The Spanish grid and generation mix will require expensive upgrades/changes to ensure the standard 99.98% reliable delivery of electricity, unless Spain—and its neighbors—are comfortable with increased frequency and severity of brownouts/blackouts.
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Any energy systems analyst would know Spain/Portugal-like blackout problems would eventually happen, before a single W/S system were connected to the grid, but naive, woke, technically illiterate enviros do not want to listen to the pros. All wind/solar/battery nonsense must be stopped dead by taking away the generous subsidies.
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The More W/S Electricity on the Grid, the Less the CO2 Reduction/kWh, due to Inefficiencies
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Analysis of 2013 data of the island Irish grid showed the CCGT fleet operating at about 50% without wind; at 45.58%, with 17% wind.
At higher W%, the CCGT fleet operates at lesser efficiencies (high Btu/kWh, high CO2/kWh), until no CO2 is reduced.
Fortunately, Brussels paid for major connections to the much larger UK and French grids.
As a result, most of the ups and downs of wind output disappeared in the noise of the larger grids.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/fuel-and-co2-reduction...
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Expensive Wind/Solar Systems
The over-taxed, over-regulated taxpayers and ratepayers are paying at very high rates, c/kWh, for: 1) electricity, and 2) Heat Pump heating/cooling, and 3) EV driving.
There is no way such high-cost electricity would increase standards of living and increase the GDP.
Businesses and skilled people would move to low-energy-cost states.
These businesses and people are tired of paying for:
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1) Highly subsidized, expensive W/S systems that disturb the grid with weather-dependent, variable, intermittent electricity, which has caused expensive brownouts/blackouts, as in Spain/Portugal, California, Texas, New England, etc., and many other places, over the years.
2) Grid expansion to connect all these far-flung wind/solar systems to the grid,
3) Grid reinforcements to ensure the grids do not crash during periods with higher levels of W/S power
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Here are some operational realities of W/S systems that are at the core of their problems:
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Synchronous Rotational Inertia, SRI, Stabilizes the Grid
Closing down traditional plants (nuclear, gas, coal, hydro), with rotating generators that provide SRI, de-stabilizes the grid; a death sentence for the grid.
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Wind/solar systems provide ZERO SRI to help stabilize the grid, because their variable outputs are digitized, then reconstituted into an artificial sine wave with the same phase and frequency as the grid.
Super expensive battery systems provide ZERO SRI.
Battery systems can provide virtual inertia, at very high c/kWh, by means of their back-end DC to AC power electronics (which failed in Spain/Portugal), which can quickly counteract voltage/frequency drops for a short time.
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Connections Between Grids
Almost all grids have connections to other grids for import and export purposes.
About 50% of such connections are high-voltage, direct-current lines, HVDC
Such DC connections transfer power, but transfer ZERO SRI to other grids.
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Reactive Power
No AC grid can function without positive reactive power; say power factor of 0.8
Wind/solar systems take reactive power FROM the grid; say power factor of -0.8
All traditional power plants are automatically set up to provide positive reactive power TO the grid.
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Synchronous Condenser Systems
The weather-dependent, variable/intermittent, wind/solar feed-ins to the grid often create transmission faults.
Those faults are often minimized with synchronous condenser systems that provide positive reactive power TO the grid.
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Blackouts
In case of too much W/S power, it needs to be curtailed.
Owners usually get paid for what they could have produced.
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In case of too little W/S power or a W/S outage, reliable, quick-reacting CCGT plants, in Hot Synchronous Standby, HSS, mode, would provide:
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1)) Instant SRI to the grid for “ride-through” to give switches time to switch, and
2) Provide power to the grid, within seconds, to counteract voltage/frequency drops due to W/S outages, 24/7/365; if battery systems were used, they would be empty after a few hours, with no prospect of a black grid to refill them.
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Spain/Portugal would have needed about 10,000 MW of CCGT plants in HSS mode to avoid its recent blackout.
They would operate at 50% output throughout the year, and quickly provide up to 5000 MW, in case of a W/S outage.
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Synchronous Rotational Inertia, SRI, provides a few seconds of “ride through”, which gives switches time to switch, and for SRI hot standby power plants to: 1) instantly feed electricity into the grid, and 2) reduce/eliminate voltage and frequency drops, and 3) provide time for automatic load shedding to take place, as needed, etc.
Spain’s problem was: 1) not enough SRI and 2) not enough SRI hot standby capacity, MW, and 3) not enough automatic load shedding.
The result BOOM
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The Spanish grid and generation mix will require expensive upgrades/changes to ensure the standard 99.98% reliable delivery of electricity, unless Spain—and its neighbors—are comfortable with increased frequency and severity of brownouts/blackouts.
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Traditional power plants provide enough Synchronous Rotational Inertia, SRI, to make our electrical systems work, already for 120 years..
It is complicated for liberal arts, lawyer, enviro types, politicians, etc., to understand, who unfortunately have seized power, because they know snake talk.
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Adding grid-disturbing, weather-dependent wind and solar systems requires the addition of more and more “hardware/software measures” to make the electrical system provide electricity service to a modern society, with a standard reliability of 99.98%
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Black Start Procedure for a 100 MW CCGT Power Plant
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Initial Power Source: The on-site auxiliary generator is started. It provides power to critical plant systems, including control, safety, and communication systems.
Plant Startup: The auxiliary generator then powers the CCGT plant’s essential systems. This includes cooling systems, fuel handling systems, and starting the gas turbine.
Connecting to the Grid: After the CCGT plant is spinning at 3600 rpm at the same phase and frequency as the grid, it can be connected to the grid to supply power to its section of the grid. That section powers another power plant, etc., until all sections are up and running. Only then, grid-destabilizing W/S systems are connected.
U.S. Sen Angus King
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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