The race to Not Zero: the beginning of the end of the climate delusion picks up speed…

By Jo Nova

Savor the moment. Donald Trump says he wants no wind farms built during his Presidency, and before we can even crack the champagne , the AfD in Germany say if they are elected, they don’t just want to stop people building new wind plants, they want to tear some of the old ones down.

That’s what we like to see, some competition…  Who can get to Not Zero the fastest?

Trump Says He Wants No Wind Farms Built During Presidency

By Bloomberg

Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.

“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind farms, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president.

German Far-Right threatens To Tear Down Wind Turbines

By MarketWire

Far-right German poltical party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) wants to tear down all wind turbines, according to the party’s candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel. “Down with all these windmills of shame,” she said at a party congress on Saturday in the eastern German town of Riesa, according to Bloomberg News.

Germany will hold Bundestag elections on Feb. 23, and AfD is in second place in the latest polls with 20-22% of eligible voters.

This was later clarified by the AfD to say they urgently want to shut down the Reinhardswald turbines. This is the wind park in the 1,000 year old forest of legend in Germany — the sacred greenery that only an money-hungry industrial vandal would want to despoil with giant bird killing towers.

The main question every Western nation needs to get a grip on — is it cheaper to wait for wind turbines to reach the end of life while paying for batteries, flywheels, hydropower, gas storage, interconnectors, plus pandemonium, extra maintenance on your essential infrastructure, and possible blackouts, or to pay out the current wind contracts, and throw a farewell party?

Obviously, since wind turbines make reliable generators more expensive and inefficient to run and drive the good ones out of business, clearly, the sooner the better. Do it while you still have a grid.

Do it while you still have an economy….