Figures. Obama Administration Takes Credit For Bush Era Wind Farm Jobs
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, October 21, 2010, 5:11 AM
Figures. The Obama Administration is taking credit for Bush era wind farm jobs.
MSNBC reported:
The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated.
Out of 70 major wind farms that received the $4.4 billion in federal energy grants through the stimulus program, public records show that 11, which received a total of $600 million, erected their wind towers during the Bush administration. And a total of 19 wind farms, which received $1.3 billion, were built before any of the stimulus money was distributed. ( See a list of the projects here.)
Yet all the jobs at these wind farms are counted in the administration’s figures for jobs created by the stimulus.
What a complete waste of money.
Let’s face it. There would be no wind farm businesses without government assistance. We’re talking about at least $5 billion dumped into this industry. That’s insane.
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Charlie Gibson commented:
Are they even transmitting electricity? The last time I heard, eco-nitwits were suing to stop transmission lines from being built.
daryl commented:
It would be interesting to know which wind farm projects got that stimulus funding and how much of the equipment was manufactured in the U.S.
tarpon commented:
Wind farms the perfect example of just because you can doesn’t mean you should engineering.
I wonder do they think wind turbines get built by black forest gnomes using mystical materials.
Militant Conservative commented:
Washington D.C. is nothing but a wind farm. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to which orafice the “wind” comes out of. Obama=liar. it is what it is.
powder is dry.
Just sitting here commented:
And the infuriating part is that no one will openly grill Obama or Robert Gibbs about the lies. So they just roll merrily on and the Obamabots just soak it up like a sponge. Tell a lie often enough….
patman commented:
Just like the website, it’s just a bunch of air.
The only people who seem to believe anything coming from the WH is the WH itself.
Whoooosh.
Sasja commented:
Where are the 50,000 supposed jobs? Sounds as hoaky as needing wind farms.
daryl commented:
Reliability of Wind-Power = chicken now, feathers later. Doesn’t work well at all with contemperary generating plants, and why it’s not good for the existing electrical grid.
Bounteous wind power swamping electric grid – Spokesman.com – July 19, 2010
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jul/19/bounteous-wind-power-swing-electric-grid/
Carbon Monoxide commented:
Actually, wind generated electricity is a viable alternative in many parts of the world and in our own country. Ireland, for example, generates 40% of its night time electricity via wind generation and the goal is 40% during the day. To use the excess capacity in the evening, Ireland is pursuing an aggressive program of developing an electric vehicle charging infrastructure and adjusting their rate structure to make it advantageous to charge your EV at night.
Faye commented:
Now I have I read this right? Almost half of those 70 wind farms were already up and running from the Bush administration. Just exactly where is all of this $4.4 billion actually going? Has half of it gone down the same rabbit hole that all of the stimulus $$’s that went to non existent zip codes?
daryl commented:
And Ireland may have an electrical load and grid the size of that of Rhode Island.
Be sure and plug your EV in during off hours or no soup OR juice for you next day.
Wind power has it’s good points but it still doesn’t mix well with conventional plants that must be up to speed and ready to pick up the load when on the same grid as your wind-farms and when there is no wind or there is too much.
It doesn’t take but one generating unit out of sync with the grid to cascade into a brownout or blackout now. Just wait until the whole damn thing is gone with the wind.
Andreas K. commented:
Those are just 50,000 future unemployed.
The windfarms won’t fly. It’ll be like in Spain, where all those green energy companies are dying because the Spanish government is bankrupt and can’t afford supporting them anymore. And the people aren’t buying their products, because they’re so expensive.
Ed commented:
This is similar to the comparison between George W.’s eco-friendly house in his texas ranch and Al Gore’s (father of the internet, lol!) energy hog for a mansion.
this is the same hypocrisy of Democrats…but what do we know, according to Obama, journalists and lawyers are green jobs!
Carbon Monoxide commented:
Daryl: The same could be said for any type of generation. It isn’t that difficult to keep things in phase. In fact, the Irish vary the power factor with these units to adjust for reactive power, so they’ve got things pretty well under control.
The point is, the Irish have been doing this for years w/o any of the issues you speak about. It is being done here as well. There are about 4M meters in Ireland with the lowest meter/mile density in Europe. They have much more difficult challenges in Ireland than we do here with our grid and communication infrastructure and yet…it works.
Valerie commented:
My grandparents in Texas had a windmill for years. It ran the pump for the water well. It was eventually replaced with an electric pump.
There are ways to build, and technologies to use, that can spare our power usage. What doesn’t work is to flood an immature technology with money, with the expectation that miracles will happen on a compressed schedule.
The US government has been funding research into batteries for cars for at least 5 decades. The fundamental problem, that a battery with sufficient power to run a car weighs to much, hasn’t been solved. When that problem is solved, we’ll have electric cars, and not before then.
daryl commented:
Wind power in the Republic of Ireland – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland
“On the 19th Jan 2010, the Republic of Ireland had an installed wind power capacity of 1260.4 megawatts”
Recent years have seen a marked increase in the level of wind power generation, three times more than the total of 495.2 megawatts in 2005. In 2008 alone, the rate of growth was 54.6%, amongst the highest in the world. On July 31, 2009, the output from the country’s turbines peaked at 999 megawatts. During certain times that day, up to 39 percent of Ireland’s demand for electricity was met from wind. On October 24, 2009, the output exceeded 1000 megawatts for the first time with a peak of 1064 MW. Once in April 2010 50% of electricity demand was met from wind power.”
Wouldn’t much more than power a small town’s lighting load,now would it?
Deloras Vind commented:
“Wind farms” are nothing more than transfers of wealth.
dacoelec commented:
The returns on wind and solar energy are so miniscule that only the super rich or the gullible will ever invest in them. If you doubt me, do the math!!
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
Government Motors’ all-electric car, the Volt, isn’t all-electric and doesn’t get near the touted hundreds of miles per gallon the obama administration said it does. Obama has admitted that there weren’t any shovel-ready stimulus jobs. The new health care reform bill will raise your rates and you will not be able to get insurance for your child with pre-existing conditions. Why should we believe that wind turbines that are made in China will save energy and money?
Gail commented:
OMG ya gotta check this Harry Reid latest Blooper!!!
http://www.breitbart.tv/reid-but-for-me-wed-be-in-world-wide-depression/
Deloras Vind commented:
there is a more complete version of the article at
http://www.betterplan.squarespace.com. Looks like a lot of the money ended up overseas.
Deloras Vind commented:
oops, missed the link at top. must be getting late.