Mark Smith writes:
*I raised a stink with a Facebook fact checkers when I posted how expensive windmill solar energy was. He or she blocked my post telling me that it was one the cheapest forms of energy and what I said was false. I disagreed and wrote another post with more evidence that I was right in the facts presented.
They backed off when I posted another article with the same premise about windmill energy cost with more facts; fortunately with all the many tech books and science magazines in my possession, and this included the internet; I resubmitted evidence that was contrary to the conclusion in that the fact checkers opinion was wrong; in that he or she was actually mistaken; these fact checkers did not include the billions of federally funded dollars dumped into the technology; all to support windmill development with it’s present mechanical problems in that many of these companies were manipulating the books. It is surprising how much fraud goes into these so called clean energy pet projects. The fact checker would have been right, but he or she did not take into account the billions of dollars dumped into research and development along with upkeep of the equipment. The problems being mechanical failure, gearbox failure, hiccups with bearings wearing out and over heating, thus causing wind turbine fires, you had structural collapse, weather related hits, such as lightning, foreign objects striking the blades, metal fatigue and composite material deterioration causing blade failure, and poor structural design with poor maintenance.
What is sad they never took into consideration how the minimum profits are puffed with billions of federally funded dollars. The same goes for the billions of dollars in yearly tax breaks made for these companies. It was the same tax breaks that were included in propping up the solar panel companies during the Obama years. If it wasn’t for all this government support subsidizing these companies, these ugly windmills would not be polluting the landscape; thus no longer existing, but just being memories as failed entities.
The second posting remained up with no further corrections or being blocked again by the Facebook fact checkers.