Asked by the host of a UFC podcast–because he is obviously he’s as qualified for that as much as he qualified for anything–how he thinks the Russian invasion of Ukraine will turn out, Mr. Accordion Hands goes on a rant about windmills:
“Well, and I said this a long time ago if this happens, ah, we are, ah, playing right into their hands, the green energy, the windmills, they don’t work, they’re too expensive, they kill all the birds, they ruin your landscapes, and yet the environmentalists love ’em, the windmills, and I’ve been preaching this for years. The windmills, and I had ’em way down, but the windmills are the most expensive piece of energy you can have, ah, and they don’t work. By the way, they last a period of ten year, and by the time they start rusting and rotting all over the place, nobody ever takes ’em down. They just go on to the next piece of prairie or land and destroy that. It’s incredible that they want–but other forms of green energy.”
According to the Montana Environmental Information Center, unsubsidized wind projects costing between $32 and $62 per megawatt-hour while coal cost between $57 and $148 per megawatt-hour. Nuclear costs $33.50 per Mw/H; gas-fired power plants cost $48 per Mw/H. And no, there aren’t “ghost farms” of unused wind mills dotting the Midwest.