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Trump to New Jersey: ‘You have finally won your war on stupidity’
Published: Jan. 24, 2025, 11:25 a.m.
- Trump cheers ‘war on stupidity’ victory with wind project halt
- President Donald Trump praised a New Jersey congressman for his helping in drawing up an executive order halting permitting for new wind farm projects.
By Robert Higgs, cleveland.com
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to praise a New Jersey congressman for helping draft an executive order in the “war on stupidity.”
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“These projects were terrible from the start, and this fight has been worth every effort—for America!” Van Drew said in a statement after Trump signed his executive order. “The executive order President Trump signed … to halt offshore wind projects includes much of the language we provided,” Van Drew said. “The president has always been a vocal critic of these disastrous scams, and we are grateful for his unwavering support.”
Trump’s order will require the interior secretary to review wind leasing and permitting practices for federal waters and lands, the order states. That assessment will consider the environmental impact of wind projects on wildlife, the economic costs associated with the intermittent generation of electricity and the effect of subsidies on the viability of the wind industry.
But the order reaches farther than what Van Drew proposed, including onshore wind projects, The Associated Press said. Trump has said wind turbines are horrible, only work with subsidies and are “many, many times” more expensive than natural gas.
Offshore wind is expensive, costing about $100 per megawatt hour for new projects connecting to the grid in 2028, the Energy Information Administration estimates. But onshore wind is one of the cheapest sources, at about $31 on average for new projects.
New natural gas plants are expected to produce electricity at nearly $43 per megawatt hour, the AP said, citing estimates. But natural gas power plants can be operated at any time throughout the day, unlike solar or wind.
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The idiocy of wind and solar is that it’s weather dependent and requires a duplicating infrastructure. For niche use cases, it MIGHT make sense. But as a large scale strategy, with the current state of technology, it makes NO sense. Plus it seems like hail can destroy solar panels. Never mind that the rare earth mining is an environmental and human (child) slavery of devastating effects.
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