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To: Brumar89 who wrote (68095)	1/24/2016 2:52:11 PM
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wind turbine photo of the year Anthony Watts / 19 hours ago January 23, 2016 From the “fire and ice” department, Craig Kelly writes on Facebook The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. In the attached picture, recently taken in Sweden, freezing cold weather has caused the rotor blades of a wind turbine to ice up bringing the blades to a complete stop. To fix the “problem” a helicopter is employed (burning aviation fuel) to spray hot water (which is heated in the frigid temperatures using a truck equipped with a 260 kW oil burner) on the blades of the turbine to de-ice them. The aviation fuel, the diesel for the truck, and the oil burned to heat the water, could produce more electricity (at the right time to meet demand) than the unfrozen wind turbine could ever produce. (Before it freezes up again). The attached picture is a metaphor of the complete insanity of the climate change debate. In decades to come this one photo alone with sum up an era of stupidity, when rational thought, logic and commonsense was abandoned and immense wealth and resources needlessly sacrificed. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/23/saturday-silliness-wind-turbine-photo-of-the-year/