Conservatives,
President Biden's massive $2 trillion "infrastructure" plan is a Trojan Horse for the Green New Deal.
Among it's many policy mistakes is a major push to force more wind turbines onto the U.S. power grid.
This will dramatically raise the price of electricity, pose a threat to birds, bats and other wildlife, increase American dependence on Chinese rare earth's and manufacturing, and industrialize unspoiled sea and landscapes.
Wind turbines also pose dramatic cyber-security challenges that could leave our power grid vulnerable to hackers and hostile foreign powers. A source of energy with output as fickle as the wind blows, requires complicated communications to bring online the massive backup intermittent power requires at a moment's notice.
Senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen outlines the cyber-security challenges wind poses at CFACT.org:
The more wind installations that come into service, the more cybersecurity challenges their integrated control systems and related technologies will pose. For cyber criminals/terrorists, wind power—whether offshore or land-based—makes for an inviting target.
Last year the Department of Energy reported that:
Standards for communications, equipment, and security practices are currently underdeveloped or absent from the wind industry. Cybersecurity standards specific to the wind industry currently do not exist. The wind industry largely depends on standards developed for other energy systems and technologies, meaning that the specific cybersecurity needs of wind energy technologies are not well understood.
Wind turbines are intermittent, inefficient, environmentally harsh and highly-subsidized burdens on our power grid.
It appears that wind turbines also provide unprecedented opportunities for bad actors to turn out our lights.
For nature and people too,  |  | Craig Rucker
President |
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P.S. NASA hopes to launch its Mars helicopter on April 11th or soon thereafter. Keep an eye out for the chance to witness this historic first flight on a planet other than Earth.
Cybersecurity of wind
power a growing concernIt takes big energy to
back up wind and solar | 
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