By Alan Caruba
I’ll bet you didn’t know that June 15th is Global Wind Day. Wind is part of the Earth’s atmosphere and, depending on whether it is blowing gently or strongly, there isn’t a darn thing anyone can do about it. Except for measuring its velocity and direction, wind like clouds remains largely a mystery to meteorologists.
Not so for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control, the people who brought you the global warming hoax, asserting that carbon dioxide, a gas on which all vegetation depends, was raising the global temperature—largely as the result of burning coal and oil as sources of energy.
The Earth, however, has been in a natural cooling cycle since 1998 and the advocates of “green energy” have been in a tailspin, a death spiral of an inadequate capacity to deliver electricity and the inability to compete with more reliable, affordable, and traditional energy sources.
Simply put, wind and solar energy is a fool’s dream and one that must be backed up by traditional energy sources at all times in the event the wind isn’t blowing or during the nighttime or if clouds obscure the sun, causing solar energy to cease producing electricity. Only an idiot would want to be dependent on wind or solar to provide a reliable source of electricity.
The Renewable Energy Industrial Index (RENIXX) tracks the stock value of wind and solar companies. In May—though you did not read about it in the mainstream media—it announced that thirty of the largest renewable energy companies were trading at “an all- time low” and the index “had lost over 90% of its value since 2008.”
So, naturally, the Sierra Club was eager to tell me about Global Wind Day and that my home state of New Jersey had the “potential to replace all the dirty coal and gas plants in the state.” The distance between “potential” and reality is roughly the distance between New Jersey and the planet Neptune.
The Sierra Club (along with a rogue’s gallery of environmental organizations) wages war on all forms of energy production and use. They urged me to join others “at a beach near you for a kite-flying rally and celebration of New Jersey’s offshore wind potential.” Not only does it oppose the use of America’s vast reserves of coal, but it also has a “Beyond Natural Gas” program as well; another huge source of power for the nation.
I won’t bore you with the list of RENIXX companies that have filed bankruptcy, but they include the ill-famed Solyndra, Beacon Power, Ener1, and others in which the Obama administration has “invested” and lost billions in taxpayer funds that could have been devoted to highway and bridge repair or restoring our ailing military power. Another fourteen companies were listed as “teetering on the brink” of bankruptcy.
In May 2011, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pulled the state from membership in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the only mandatory cap-and-trade program in the U.S. The RGGI would have required New Jersey to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (the vital carbon dioxide plants need). Maine and New Hampshire had previously bowed out of the former ten-state coalition that would have reduced their capacity to provide electrical power. In doing so, Governor Christie diverted $65 million from RGGI and helped balance the state budget.
It is worth mentioning that New Jersey derives 50% of its electrical power from nuclear facilities. For reasons beyond my understanding, Governor Christie signed off on a project to build a grid of a wind farm of 96 turbines 16 to 20 miles off our shoreline. If the permitting process can be stopped, New Jersey’s shoreline will not be saddled with this awful project and the miles of cable it will require to deliver the few megawatts its “potential” promises.
Europe which led the charge to build wind and solar power projects as the result of its obsession with carbon dioxide emissions has since discovered that neither can compete with fossil fuel and nuclear power. France is the exception, getting most of its power from nuclear facilities. In England, its citizens are increasingly suffering from “fuel poverty” as the cost of electricity continues to soar thanks to its reliance on wind and solar projects.
Not only is the European continent suffering a financial crisis thanks to the failure of the European Union’s effort to get 27 sovereign, member nations to act in concert with one another, it is facing a shortage of energy to maintain its industrial base and service the needs of its population.
So, on Global Wind Day, feel free to go to the beach, but remember that it is an extraordinary bad way to generate energy.
It will no doubt be on the agenda for the forthcoming June Rio+20 Earth Summit that is self-described as “the 'institutional framework for sustainable development'; a system of global governance” aimed at achieving the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel’s plan to control the world’s “social, environmental, and economic” policies.
And you thought wind and solar power was just about electricity.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Comment
Comment by Vern Shotwell on June 12, 2012 at 11:14am We don't need to capture Solar Energy. We need no new solar cells! Each blade of grass, leaf and even pond slime provide us with untold billions of Solar Cells, capturing sunlight. I refer you to Chloroplasts and photosynthesis
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on June 12, 2012 at 10:58am 
Comment by Steven Cox on June 12, 2012 at 10:41am Mr. Small seems persuaded that energy would flow like water from a faucet if it weren't for all the greedy powers that be having shut off the valve. As for travel to even the nearest star (12 trillion miles distant), the Apollo moon rockets had no shortage of funding for the energy they needed to reach the moon and were only able to do something like 7 miles a second. Light travels 186,282 miles a second, yet requires two years to reach that nearest star, which may or may not have a solar system. We are a stupefyingly long way from being able to trek the stars, and a long way from easy energy, regardless of how corrupt the entity is that controls the spigot. As for who to blame for high energy prices, why point a finger at the oil industry in a day when it is abundantly clear that our own government is trying to shut it down, and succeeding? We have met the enemy, and it IS the government. Folks need to stop shooting their fraud and scam bullets at everything that can move without a government hand-out, and aim at the one target now known to be shooting back.
Comment by Michael Small on June 11, 2012 at 10:09pm The simple fact is we don't need a sunny day for solar energy. We have solar closets in some apartments here in the NW and they do just fine. That being said, solar is not advanced tech as it is still controlled. Same way with magnetic power units and energy cells. They could all be released for cheap and efficient energy but are not because of money and power.
Solar Cars should never need to be charged as they should have a self charging system build in but we have to have electric plug in stations from coast to coast.
Obama's buddies could have probably down quite well with producing energy, but my bet is they just pocketed the money. No different than Top Secret Jobs of the Military and DOD years ago that were supposed to run a few thousand dollars, but ended up costing millions and it was all fraud.
The who system is one big scam and people just don't know any better. We have had carbonation systems for cars that produce unbelievable fuel mile ratings but all shelved because of the Oil companies.df
As for big oil, we have all the oil we will ever need in the BAKKEN, plus all the capped wells all over the mid west and south. We have so much energy potential and free energy potential and it is all controlled by big money and power and greed.
Nuclear Eneregy is a big farce also simply because of all the technologies available that could produce free energy, so while we pay through the nose, our world Nuclear Generator will exploding or burn down every now and then and poison the planet the the earth all for big power, money and greed.
As for Global Warming and Cooling is all natural cycles and the fact we are moving toward an alignment of the planets, there will most likely be major changes in this planet, in the population numbers, and damage done because of natural causes and it will not be the first time this has happened on this planet.
The Global monetary melt down is a planned event by the World Bank and the Federal Reserve. It is all New World Order programming if I have anything to say about it and I guess many others feel the same way.
On Global Wind day I plan to have a huge pot of beans and perhaps some cornbread do go with it.
If it were not for all the power posturing on this planet we could probably be advanced enough to already be traveling to other worlds in other solar systems. Star Trek? Why not?
Some good things are happening simply because of the way our governments have been run and some know change must be made in order to survive. Shame it had to come down to all the problems we now face and much worse in the near future because no one is ready for tomorrow because we are still paying for yesterday.
Comment by MUG on June 11, 2012 at 2:02pm Isn't it ironically tragic that measures taken to "save the world" from the overheating hoax are now killing people because the world is actually cooling.
Comment by Steven Cox on June 11, 2012 at 11:07am Mr. Chaney is incorrect. Now is not the time to swing at Big Oil, nor is now the time to invest in more wind or more solar, as if any of the companies the Obamanation has thrown our money at were becoming success stories. Newt Gingrich is correct: drilling for oil and natural gas at home will help to lower the price at the pump and offset an inflation spike.
Comment by Billy Bowlegs on June 11, 2012 at 9:31am 
Comment by Vern Shotwell on June 11, 2012 at 7:57am So....Friday is Global Wind Day. What does this mean?
Are we to Break Wind at the most inappropriate times and places on that day?
I simply ask, so that I might better understand. Imagine millions of people gathering, to so commemorate the day in unison.
The very thought brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it?
Comment by Doug Nicholson on June 10, 2012 at 9:31pm @David Chaney: I agree that we need to develop all energy sources. However, if as you say "...inflation or a devaluation of the dollar could easily double or triple the prices of other sources...", that only increases the demand on "alternative" sources, which results in higher prices for them.
Comment by k.t.borland on June 10, 2012 at 9:14pm Sounds like "AGENDA 21",the UN's plan to control the world!
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