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My point was that you cannot deduce unprofitability of wind power from the fact that the place currently runs on diesel.

By that reasoning, it makes no sense to install wind power anywhere, because surely in most other cases there were existing power plants, too.




I found you point to be, because economists who have done many years of study are stupid and won't pick up $20 because of their many many years of study in the subject would for some reason ditch logic and not pick up a $20 bill.

They are stupid people who study at university who reduce brain capacity.

Maybe I'm stupid too but, if wind power worked there then that can be the project, no need to add the agriculture on top of it.Why the hell make it harder and use it on only a untested (For viability) growing machine that might make peoples lives better?


> By that reasoning, it makes no sense to install wind power anywhere, because surely in most other cases there were existing power plants, too.

The difference is installing wind power for general purpose use, vs installing it specifically for a single project.

Installing some new power source specially for one project is a red flag, exactly like he says. If it was a good idea it would be installed for general use.




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