A Quote by James Lovelock

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.

James Lovelock

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James Lovelock
English - Scientist
Born: July 26, 1919

Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity, locks in fossil fuels, and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.

Michael Shellenberger

I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.

Howie Carr

We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.

Tulsi Tanti

Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

Nigel Lawson

In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I'd gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, 'We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?'

John Layfield

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

Tim Yeo

Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.

Anne Murray

Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth but there are reasons to believe the opposite will be the case.

Michael Shellenberger

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

Joe Hockey

I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.

Dean Kamen

In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome.

Michael Shellenberger

Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.

Joseph J. Romm

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

Roger Helmer

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.