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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI didn't know Donald Trump is an expert on wind power.
I just read that in his CPAC ramble he explained the pros and cons of wind power to his under-informed republican base. Actually, there were no pros, just a con. The media missed this technological nugget as they focused on his senseless blundering instead.
"When the wind stops blowing, that's the end of your electricity." "Let's hurry up darling, is the wind blowing today? I'd like to watch television, darling".
And I guess that's why we don't see wind farms and wind mills in America, and we never will. He probably learned about science in a course at Trump University.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Aristus
(66,328 posts)And nobody has ever invented a means of storing electricity, like a battery or something. We live in a battery-less world.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)...after they stop working.
If only there was a way to replenish all that electricity in the phone.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)In fact, I can see one off in the distance as I look out of my office window in Northern California right now. It's just that we don't have enough of them.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)for sure.
Drove through that pass so many times I can't even count ... it's actually super-cool looking esp. when lots of 'em are on and spinning.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Because he doesn't think they work, and worse, his supporters don't think so. The president seems to believe people in Northern Cal sit in the dark when the wind dies down.
I know sarcasm doesn't translate on the internet, but everyone but him and apparently the idiots at CPAC knows there are wind farms.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)All that stupid in one place...an explosion of ignorance.
unblock
(52,208 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Another bad decision made by non-scientists.
Autumn
(45,066 posts)musette_sf
(10,200 posts)Caliman73
(11,736 posts)I mean, I don't use wind power but I have solar and damn when it's a cloudy day and I have to sit in the dark!
That man is exceptionally stupid. He's never heard of batteries I guess.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)They just stop working.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)In 2012, when Scotland was looking to site a wind farm off the coast adjacent to one of Trump's golf courses, he testified at some hearing against the windmills being installed. He ranted, he railed, and he claimed that there were experts who could testify that the site wasn't suitable for a wind farm. When the person in charge of the hearing finally got a word in edgewise to ask who some of these experts might be, Trump blustered, "I am the expert!" The room erupted in laughter.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)...Using bait and switch tactics on his supporters that believe his tax scam would help them when he stole money out of their pockets for the wealthy instead. He also used it claiming he wouldn't touch Social Security , Medicare , and Medicaid then he and the gop passed their tax scam bill which took just under 2 trillion out of those programs. He just keeps these supporters believing his crap, then screws them over and tells them to like it because he's so great. Lets see he also promised to make health care more affordable , and for everyone, and with better coverage, but again did the opposite kicking millions off of their plans and allowed drug and premiums prices to skyrocket after saying he wouldn't , but took millions from big pharma. Again his supporters were taken to the cleaners with his bait and switch tactics. They're slow learners I guess.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Comes with his chronic explosive diarrhea.
irisblue
(32,971 posts)Source-https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-tried-to-block-is-now-complete/
Snip--"Trump himself expressed concern about the 2003 plans to build the offshore wind farm, just after he had bought a seaside estate near the town of Balmedie in Aberdeenshire in 2006. I am not thrilled, Trump said then. I want to see the ocean, I do not want to see windmills. Then in 2011, after formal construction plans were submitted, Trump filed a complaint to the Scottish government against the the horrible idea of building ugly wind turbines directly off Aberdeens beautiful coastline. Trumps golf course opened in 2012."
Lots more there.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Golf course in Scotland. There was a big tadoo over that.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)He probably already practiced that line when he was trying to talk them out of it. Didn't work.
ooky
(8,922 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,475 posts)Just ask him.
blogslut
(38,000 posts)In other words, if the wind stops blowing, (which is rare because all it takes for the turbines to work is a light breeze) the system reverts to whatever source.
FYI Texas is the largest supplier of Wind Energy in the United States. Where I live, our turbines mostly only shut down because the wind is too strong. Yet somehow the electricity never stops. Funny that.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)because, you know...night.
Let's be honest - If bozo could find away to make a dollar off every turbine, he'd be out there humping every producer, every municipal leader, every congressman and senator in order to get them installed.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Big Wind is what he hears after his midnight snack from Taco Bell.
malaise
(268,976 posts)What's more he is pissed that he has to pay for the court costs related to his objection to the wind farms in Scotland.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)is deemed stupid. Has anyone on the left discussed going strictly to wind power? C'mon
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)n/t
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)he'll never have to worry about a shortage of wind.