Wind Farms Quotes:

Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the COâ‚‚ emissions from a single jumbo jet.

- Christopher Booker

source: "Christopher Booker's notebook". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2006.

topic: Thinking, Wind Farms, Google, Environmentally Friendly, Welsh

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

- Tulsi Tanti

topic: Crazy, Wind Farms, Sea

Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

- Greg Graffin

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Running, Sorry, Wind Farms, Dryers

The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

- Van Jones

source: Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

topic: Dirty, Wind Farms, Leaving

I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Wind Farms, Law, Energy, Wind Energy, Wind Power

I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

topic: Believe, Wind, Keys, Alternative Energy, Wind Farms

Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.

- Michael Brune

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Kids, Rome, Wind, Fracking, Watersheds

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

- Stewart Brand

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Squares, Wind Energy, Wind Farms

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.

- Ilana Mercer

source: "In Defense of the Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

topic: Wind, Sound, Backyards, Offshore, Flora

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

- Van Jones

topic: Jobs, Home, Views, Building Things, Organic Agriculture

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity grew from 7,600 megawatts in 1997 to 9,600 in 1998, an expansion of 26 percent. At a national level, Germany led the way, adding 790 megawatts of capacity, followed by Spain with 380 megawatts, and the United States with 226 megawatts. In the past, U.S. wind generating capacity was concentrated in California, but in 1998, wind farms began generating electricity in Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming, broadening the new industry's geographical base.

- Lester R. Brown

source: Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.16, Routledge

topic: Past, Cells, Wind, Solar Cells, New Energy