Obama Says “This Is the Future of American Energy” at Bailed Out Foreign-Owned Wind Company
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:37 PM
You just can’t make this stuff up…
U.S. President Barack Obama takes questions during a town hall discussion about clean energy while visiting Gamesa Technology Corporation in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, April 6, 2011. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)
President Barack Obama, the worst jobs president since the Great Depression, visited the Gamesa wind turbine factory in Pennsylvania today. Obama told his audience,
“These are not your father’s windmills,” Obama said, with a wind-turbine hub and gear box looming behind him. “You guys are not messing around. This is the future of American energy.”
Of course, Barack Obama did not bother to tell his audience that the only reason he was speaking at the company today was because it was bailed out with stimulus cash before it went under.
Brighter Energy reported:
Gamesa Wind USA is to bring back workers it laid off last November – and hire 50 more people – thanks to a handout from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The wind turbine manufacturer, which has production facilities in Edensburg, Pennsylvania, is to receive $22.8 million in grants under the federal economic stimulus program.
The funding will pay for wind turbines for three large wind projects in the state.
Gamesa will receive $7.8 million towards installation of 19 wind turbines at the Chestnut Flats wind farm in Cambria and Blair Counties, each turbine rated at 2MW output.
A further $10 million will go towards the production of 23 turbines for Iberdrola Renewables’ South Chestnut wind farm in Fayette County.
And, $5 million is being produced for the eight turbines to be installed near Frackville, Schuykill County, in a project developed for the Broad Mountain Wind Energy Center.
By the way… Gamesa is Spanish-owned.
More… This was timely. A new report released today claims that wind farms are totally useless.
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Rachelle commented:
Is there a day that passes that he doesn’t prove that he is an idiot?
Sally commented:
He met w/ Mr. Boehner for 3 minutes (really) today on the budget before leaving the WH.
Sally commented:
ooops- I didn’t see your next piece, Jim
Andreas K. commented:
Yeah, those 2 MW per turbine are 1) not impressive and 2) only under ideal conditions.
By the way.
Those are $456,000 per job.
theBuckWheat commented:
The economics of wind power is just horrible. They are not “dispatchable” a term that means that the utility will find it hard to predict just how much power they will generate and for how long. Wind power must have a backup somewhere else on the local grid that can be quickly turned on (“dispatched”) in order to pick up the slack when the wind suddenly dies down. This costs in the form of capital as well as extra lines. Further, due to the need to be quickly dispatched, this limits the type of generation equipment. For example, a coal fired plant cannot be quickly fired up. So, that mostly leaves natural gas turbines. More capital, plus more pollution complications because gas turbines have their own pollution permitting issues.
It is easy to speculate that when the green bloom falls of the wind rose, that these windmills will become massive monuments to a fashionable folly. The costs to properly decommission them will be substantial as the expensive tall cranes will have to be brought in. They already are horrible gyrating eyesores.
We would have been much better off putting a fraction of the money into research into new stable nuclear reactor designs like those that burn thorium in a liquid fluoride salt. see: http://energyfromthorium.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=63
Catherine commented:
why people wont be going on vacation is bho’s fault every time you fill up remember that..
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-phoenix/breaking-obama-shuts-down-33-of-the-country-s-oil-refining-capacity
Breaking: Obama shuts down 33% of the country’s oil refining capacity
1july2010
Gil Guignat
Whereas Obama is trying to crush Arizona by suing it into the ground to prevent it from defending itself from illegal immigration, and it is preventing any clean up efforts in Louisiana after 71 days, it has just been learned from one of our conatcts in Texas that Obama by way of the EPA has just shut down today 33% of the country’s refining capacity.
While Obama was unsuccessful at putting a moratorium on oil drilling, he was able to accomplish the same thing by putting a stranglehold on oil refining which accomplishes the same thing. With 1/3rd of the country’s oil refining gone what do you think this will do to the economy?
This was the inherent threat that Obama had presented for months. Either give him Cap and Trade or we will shut everything down through the EPA.
WELL NOW the people are feeling the pain?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014694460_apusoilpriceseconomy.html
6APRIL2011
Rising oil prices beginning to hurt U.S. economy
GOOD READ
BUT MAYBE GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF OBUMMER’S BUTT
“The surge in oil prices since the end of last year is already doing significant damage to the economy,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics
THIS IS OBUMMERS FAULT
For consumers, more expensive energy siphons away money that would otherwise be used for household purchases, from cars and furniture to clothing and vacations.
High energy prices are “putting a drain on consumer budgets,” says James Hamilton at the University of California, San Diego. “To the extent they’re having to spend more on gasoline, they have to make cutbacks elsewhere.”
DUH AND THIS IS OBUMMERS FAULT HE SHUT DOWN DRILLING FOR 7 YEARS WHY? TO HELP HIS MUSSI FRIENDS?
Seventy-one percent say they’re cutting back on other expenses to make up for higher pump prices. Sixty-four percent say they’re driving less. And 53 percent say they’re changing vacation plans to stay closer to home.
“I try to leave the car parked at home all day Saturday,” says Curt Lindsay, who commutes an hour each way to his job as a computer systems administrator outside Washington, D.C. “I’d rather not spend the money on gasoline.”
OH NO THIS IS BHO’S FAULT
His co-worker Albert Zaza canceled family trips to New York and Boston after the cost of filling up his Honda CRV surged from $35 to $47. Zaza spends four to five hours in traffic each day and has to fill up every other day.
Rising fuel prices are pinching businesses too.
AND WILL PINCH FARMERS AS MUCH AS THE WEATHER IS SO THE PRICE OF FOOD WILL SKYROCKET BLAME THE DEMOCRATS AND BHO
Obummer started this within the first 3 months in office remember he shut down 77 oil leases in March of 2009
so when your child is hungry blame the democrats and all their goons
Catherine
reliapundit commented:
that is the future obama has us headed on: building useless crap for chinese owners w/tasxpayer subsidies.
we must change course!
gus commented:
Why is government involved in any of this??
Zipity commented:
HAH! Xcel Energy in North Dakota just canceled a huge wind farm installation due to the fact it would kill numerous endangered birds, among them Whooping and Sandhill cranes. Estimates are that existing wind turbines kill nearly 500,000 birds annually (not to mention bats). How do you like them green apples you tree-hugging morons on the Left?
theBuckWheat commented:
The longer government is shutdown the less we will have to borrow from China. At the rate of spending, let us hope government shuts down for at least 5 months. Then we will have a balanced budget.
bluemount commented:
Wind is a centuries-old energy source that today is so miniscule used. Why? Duh! Because it’s cumbersome, unreliable, and requires lots of land space. Its’s the energy source for serfs, which we have become. And Obama mocked someone for questioning him about $4.00 gas prices: he told him to get a trade-in, get a hybrid. BHO has no comprehension of the economy: who has money to buy a car? And where is MSM with the cost of gas these days. If it had been on Bush’s watch, he would have been relentlessly criticized. Nothing but silence from MSM. Why aren’t Americans raising a hue and cry about it? We are headed right down the path BHO has planned for us: “energy prices will necessarily rise”. Remember that, BHO voters? Did you think he was just kidding. Thanks to all of you we are in big trouble now and ahead.
Neo commented:
The link seems to give the impression that Gamesa is Spanish owned
wanumba commented:
Just think, for the amount of money that the Liberals have WASTED on WORTHLESS, squeezing everyone on environmental regs, overtaxing at the gas pump, chasing our oil companies out of the country, overexpanding welfare to do nothing, recycling, more expensive and resource gobbling lights bulbs and cars, wind farms, solar … on and on and on … we could ALREADY have an operating MOON BASE and on our way to linking regularly to MARS and mining the asteriod belt.
THINK of how much fun we’ve been DENIED by the dreary Democrats and their obsessive money-snarfing compulsions.
jomojava the infidel commented:
“These are not your father’s windmills”
I asked my father. He never had a windmill.
I cannot fathom another 6 years of this barfola.
November 2012…..if the Republic survives that long.
Justine commented:
Obummer is such a numbskull; anyone who thinks he’s intelligent must not be.
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auntie em commented:
#15 April 6, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Justine commented:
Obummer is such a numbskull; anyone who thinks he’s intelligent must not be.
=======================
Agreed! I want to scream everytime someone says that he is a good speaker or reader of speeches?? What the….??? He sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. And his cadence makes him sound stupid. I just don’t get it. He is not smart in the sense of genius to better your surroundings. He’s smart as in Charles Manson was smart enough to get people to do his dirty work. Two totally different things.
gus commented:
Has this Kenyan dimwit installed a windmill on Air Force One, or is the plane a hybrid???
Liberals believe in government, because they are incapable of surviving without help.
Paul52 commented:
Where is the wind powered airliner, locomotive or earth mover? Maybe we need a wind farm on the White House lawn… never ending supply of wind there!
gus commented:
Windmills are great if you have an endless supply of someone else’s money to make your LIBTARD make-believe-dream come true.
Obama is not intelligent. He is emotionally disturbed
ChillyinAlaska commented:
This isn’t the future, if all TEA party AMERiCANS get out and vote. Urge every conservative to vote, and starting now petition your state and local officials to purge the voter rolls of the dead, illegal, and fraudlent voter registrations that have been registered by ACORN and their affiliates.
We also need to join Donald Trump and DEMAND Obama release all his records and prove himself to be a natural born citizen. Why does he have a social security number issued in Connecticut if he was born in Hawaii? What do his school and college records show, what does his passport say? If we can remove him now because he fraudulently testified he was a natural born citizen and qualified to be president, all he has done will be fraud and voided.
This would be a good start and go a long way to restoring our government from the corrupt unconstitutional monstrosity it has become under the Obama administration.
Pat the First commented:
I don’t have a problem with wind machines. I live where there are a lot of them. They really aren’t necessary for us since we have more energy than we can use so we sell our leftovers to California. But they are not going to be a sub for any other form of energy. I am all for nuclear.
Chisum commented:
From the John Muir Trust report:
Stuart Young Consulting, with support from the John Muir Trust, has released a report studying the ability of wind power to make a significant contribution to the UK’s energy supply. It concludes that the average power output of wind turbines across Scotland is well below the rates often claimed by industry and government.
Indeed, for numerous extended periods of time all the wind turbines in Scotland linked to the National Grid muster less than 20MW of energy – that’s enough power for a mere 6,667 households to boil their kettles for a cup of tea.
Rick commented:
Obama consistently does and says things that demonstrate he is intentionally destroying the American economy. It is foolish to think that he these things because he is not intelligent and does not understand the effect of his actions and words.
Pat the First commented:
Rick, I think B.O. consistently says and does things that demonstrate that he is just not very smart.
gus commented:
Rick, Obama believes that Commie/Marxist, huge Centrally controlled and planned govt. works.
Bingo commented:
#23 April 6, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Rick commented:
Obama consistently does and says things that demonstrate he is intentionally destroying the American economy.
Would an enemy either foreign or domestic do anything different than BHO?
As long as you understand the end game, nothing will surprise you. Prepare now, your life and your families life depend on it. Food, water, medical supplies, arms and ammo ect….
1 year good start, 2-3 years better wink.
YreNextTrgt commented:
[b]NATO is taking over command of military operations in Libya from coalition forces, world media reported Sunday.[/b]
The UN Security Council imposed the no-fly zone over Libya on March 17, along with ordering “all necessary measures” to protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi’s attacks on rebel-held towns.
The 28 NATO ambassadors met on Sunday to decide on further military plans in Libya.
The United States transfers command for a no-fly zone over Libya to NATO, while coalition forces will continue to protect civilian population from attacks by Gaddafi forces.
The military operation in Libya, codenamed Odyssey Dawn, has been conducted so far jointly by 13 states, including the United States, Britain and France.
NATO members decided on Thursday to assume responsibility for the enforcement of a no-fly zone in Libya, but could not agree on taking full command of all military operations in the country.
Meanwhile, leaders of the 27 European Union states on Thursday issued a statement saying the EU stood ready to assist in building a new Libya “in cooperation with the United Nations, the Arab League, the African Union and others.”
MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti)
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110327/163235937.html
bg commented:
++
ht ITP
Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Illegally Attempting
to Export Military Satellite Components to the PRC
[Two Chinese nationals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in
Alexandria, Va., for attempting to obtain radiation-hardened microchips,
which are prohibited defense items used in the military and aerospace
industry.]
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Hedgehog commented:
Let’s see. Gamesa is Spanish owned. It was on the brink of bankruptcy. How did they do in Spain? My guess is that they folded once the government subsidies dried up, and they came over here to get some of Obama’s stash. If what the make is so good, why do they need government money?
MARY commented:
For those who have never seen a windfarm (what a sweet, bucolic sounding term that is).
I have a wake-up call for you: They are butt ugly!!!
Imagine driving through a lovely area, say the Cotswold Dales in England… Beautiful rolling hills dotted with sheep with twenty different shades of green as the sunlight cascades through the wispy clouds. Men tweedily dressed calling to sheepdogs who dutifully and spunkily round up the sheep and direct them to the next rock fenced field. An optic that is truly an English national treasure.
And yes, we have this similar in our beautiful American landscape as well.
Now imagine this scene with HUGE, droningly NOISY, white (black would be less visually intrusive) whirling monstrosities placed at regular intervals that kill birds (In California it’s those rare but dimwitted Condors)…
Then, realize these visual blights are crippling inefficient at best.
Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmmm! Barack Hussein Obama.
patman commented:
I pray for still skies.
Pitchforks and tar/feathers.
Let’s take this country back!!!
donh commented:
I travel extensively in my work in all kinds of weather. I would estimate that the windmills I pass in my travels are stationary over 60% of the time. People should consider taking cell phone photographs whenever they drive past a dead windmill and post the evidance of this quack fraudulant energy program on line.
Andreas K. commented:
Hedgehog, that is correct. When the Spanish government realized they can’t afford financing those companies anymore, the companies went belly up since nobody’s buying their stuff.
Redwine commented:
Gamesa is Spanish-owned wind turbine factory.
Hussein is a Soros-owned wind-bag wannabe dictator.
cal rifkin commented:
…think my head just expl——-
Indigo Red commented:
John Muir trust report conclusion…
“The nature of wind output has been obscured by reliance on “average output” figures. Analysis of hard data from National Grid shows that wind behaves in a quite different manner from that suggested by study of average output derived from the Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) record, or from wind speed records which in themselves are averaged. It is clear from this analysis that wind cannot be relied upon to provide any significant level of generation at any defined time in the future. There is an urgent need to re-evaluate the implications of reliance on wind for any significant proportion of our energy requirement.”
Robert commented:
If you live anywhere near a wind turbine, meaning a half mile or so, you hear a constant whumping sound when it is working, very low frequency. The constantness of the sound is quite disturbing to some people, never-ending if the wind blows regularly.
Also, perhaps just a bit closer, if you are in the shadow of one, your home blinks dark continually for the period that the sun is opposite the device from you. Again, quite disturbing for many people.
You could experience these effects if the thing looks like it’s way across the field from you, which could happen to a lot of people.
If this wind power scheme is enacted, it could very easily become a national boondoggle, aside from the issues mentioned above regarding lack of power.
tommy mc donnell commented:
has this wind energy ever worked any where in the world? if obama is for it it almost has to be a failure. i can’t see him being for anything that would be good for america.
Andreas K. commented:
Geothermal and fusion are the things we need to look into. And while that is being R&Ded, we should go into nifty stuff like the thorium reactor.
You know, should geothermal really work… you know who’ll be the first to use it?
Not the US. Not the EU.
Japan, China, Korea. They’ll nail it. Geothermal would be ideal for Japan. Just wait. First geothermal plant at the base of Mt Fuji in, let’s say, ten to twenty years.
Andreas K. commented:
tommy mc donnell
I know that, in the UK, people who live near those, are complaining. A lot. Same in Germany.
I think the Dutch have an off-shore windpart. Small thing. It’s not really impressive.
Off-shore brings some additional problems. You need to erect a platform for the turbines to stand on, in the ocean. You need long and large cables to transport the power. Very cost intensive. In fact, far too expensive. No country can afford that.
There’s an area in Germany where they built a lot of those turbines. It’s… ugly. All you see is turbines and the masts from the power grid. Is that our future landscape?
And what are countries like Switzerland or Japan going to do? They don’t have the space. Switzerland can’t even build off-shore.
This is ridiculous.
dnacleo commented:
always thought that wind could be good but that we went the wrong direction on it. these huge farms and large units are a fail, wind picks up and they need to be shut down for a few reasons, one seldom mentioned being blade tip speed. blade tips hate approaching/crossing supersonic threshold. this is not as much an issue an smaller units due to smaller blades.
we should have concentrated resources on smaller home units to SUPPLEMENT the grid.
wind can NEVER power a grid, it can only help supplement (key word IMO ) an existing source.
tommy mc donnell commented:
did you ever notice that when obama is at some business telling us that these is america’s economic future he is always at a foreign owned company