Wind Power: The Expensive Truth You Need to Know

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]If it did, they should be ashamed of themselves because it's one of the most misused measures in the history of of public policy because it doesn't take into account what we just talked about, that intermittency. So, sure, wind when it's running can be cheap, but then it has to have essentially 100% backup for when it isn't there. So, you put all the capital investment in to build wind and then you either have to have batteries, which so far can't provide enough backup to to be feasible.

[00:00:37]Um and which are also an environmental nightmare and a fire hazard and all kinds of other things. Um or you have to have a legacy generating system like our existing gas and coal and nuclear and hydro to back it up. So, you're essentially paying for your power generation twice. Um the other thing, too, is too often here lately, we've been installing, installing, installing wind and also solar and prematurely retiring these capital assets that still had years and years of life ahead of them that that we've already paid for. So, just piling insanity upon insanity.