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The unfortunate fact is that renewable energy does not meaningfully replace fossil and nuclear fuels. …

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· Apr 24, 2018

Hi @windwatchorg, Haven't you guys got anything better to do than try to undermine clean, green #RenewableEnergy? Enlighten us - what would you like to see make up our energy mix? Expensive nuclear? #ClimateChange causing #FossilFuels? @GeorgeMonbiot

2:09 PM · Apr 27, 2018Twitter Web Client

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And such diffuse (low-density) sources as wind and solar require massive plants to capture even enough to make selling virtue-signaling green tags profitable. …

National Wind Watch

@windwatchorg

Apr 27, 2018

That means wind and solar on an industrial scale necessarily have adverse effects of their own, particularly as they need huge tracts of previously undeveloped rural and wild land, including mountain ridge lines. …

National Wind Watch

@windwatchorg

Apr 27, 2018

And being intermittent and, in the case of wind, highly variable, they still require backup, which is forced to run much less efficiently (ie, with more carbon emissions) than it could without having to contend with wind's erratic generation. …

National Wind Watch

@windwatchorg

Apr 27, 2018

So for such utter lack of actual benefit coupled with substantial harm, no, we do not support wind and work to protect the environment from its depredations.

National Wind Watch

@windwatchorg

Apr 27, 2018

We advocate conservation, which reduces fossil and nuclear fuel use much more than wind and solar do.

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I notice that you haven't answered my question...

Jeff Rice

@EvolvingCaveman

Apr 27, 2018

I'll ask again - what energy mix would you like to see?