Wind Farms consist of:

- Roads that have to be made to accommodate special transporters for heavy and long loads. This includes existing public highways as well as new roads cut into the countryside to provide access to the sites where the turbine towers and turbines will be erected

- Extensive HVAC or HVDC cabling that connects the turbines of the wind farm to the Substation that feeds the supply into the grid.

- Foundations for the towers (Normally constructed using concrete and steel) involves cement, site machinery and extensive transport

- Mining of natural resources and transport of the same involved in the fabrication, manufacture and transport of the turbine towers, turbines, blades and cabling.

All of the above create a "carbon emission footprint" for your wind farm so the following statements made by dick greenhaus are complete and utter crap if a proper environmental audit were made for each wind farm:

"With a wind generator, you expend zero energy(actually you use wind energy, but you don't pay for that) to get your 100 units of electrical energy. Efficiency = 100/0 (infinity)"

AND

"Efficiency is the useful energy produced divided by the
energy required to produce it. By definition a wind turbine has an infinitely high efficiency"

In the course of its design life a single 3MW wind turbine will supply clean energy to the equivalent of some 6,000 to 7,000 tons of carbon emissions.

The carbon emission cost of installing that turbine and putting it into service amounts to somewhere between 26,000 and 41,000 tons of carbon emissions

The turbine will never produce enough energy to wipe the slate clean.

100% efficiency will never, ever be achieved the best so far has been 87% and more normally the rate is 23%. If you have wind farms you must also have sufficient alternative generating capacity on line ready to immediately clutch in and that has to be kept running CONSTANTLY.

Wind farms - thoroughly bad idea.