Posted on 02/08/2020 6:16:41 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
The wind industry claims a virtuous, moral superiority, but the millions of birds and bats that it slaughters each year, no doubt, think otherwise.
If wind power proponents weren’t so arrogant and sanctimonious, the fact that their beloveds slice and dice countless birds and bats and crush millions of tonnes of beneficial insects each year would probably pass as the natural and justifiable incident of an important power source.
But, starting from the position that these things are not only clean and green, but couldn’t harm a fly, leaves them wide open to a slam dunk charge of hypocrisy.
Then there’s the fact that heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind power can’t be delivered on demand; never has, never will be. Electricity that can’t be provided in an instantaneous response to immediate demand has absolutely no commercial value.
Which means that an utterly pointless power generation system is killing millions of birds and bats and insects with impunity; an exercise in wanton, state sanctioned environmental destruction.
Among those critters clobbered or splattered by 50-60m blades (with their tips travelling at over 350 kmh) are species that feature on the threatened or endangered list. Like the critically endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, and Europe’s Red Kite.
Off the coast of Britain, offshore wind turbines have slashed Herring Gull numbers by 82%, European Shag by 51% and Razorbills by 55%.
The picture is no brighter in the USA for America’s bats. At a recent conference in Indiana Ball State University biologist Tim Carter laid out the bloody facts before an audience gobsmacked by the scale of the carnage.
(Excerpt) Read more at stopthesethings.com ...
The fewer bats, the fewer reservoirs for coronavirus.
This has been a known factor in Germany for over 30 years.
BATS! It’s what’s for dinner. Grrrrrrrreta approves if will save muvver erf.
Bats here mostly eat flying insects such as mosquitoes. Don't trust that Chinese nor CDC have delved that far into actual vectors. Mosquitoes carry Nile, Dengue fever, Malaria, and other viruses, so....
Oh, I know all about mosquitos. I live in Minnesota.
The fewer bats the more mosquitos, and suspect corona virus is quit happy to hitch a ride.
I wonder how many birds conventional power plants kill a year? Two or three?
Can’t they come up with a wind turbine that zaps Moon Bats? Then you’d really have somethin’.
Typically fewer than that. If one is found in the vicinity of a conventional power plant, it is a $50,000 fine each....a fine that was suspended by Obama for the wind industry.
The birdies are going to keep on being mulched by these ugly contraptions because progressive democrats are never, never, never wrong about what they think is good for us. In their little minds anyway.
Yes ,every stupid idea these environmentalists come up with is a Disaster
By the time enough people Who matter figure out what a disaster filling the country up with these things is it will be too late l fear.
“”””Oh, I know all about mosquitos. I live in Minnesota.””
Same here. I am putting a bat house in my yard this year.
I fail to understand why these wind farms are not subject to the same environmental scrutiny as any other projects. Imagine the lawsuits if a proposed construction project was shown to cause a similar levels of death to birds and bats.
As vile as bats may seem, they are an important insect control animal. One or two bats can sweep through a back yard and rid it of thousands of mosquitoes and flies; and they avoid humans.
If they are killing so many bats why are Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and Elisabeth Warren still here?
Soup’s on!
Because old bats can't soar as high.
From a distance, these things look like they are hardly turning, but if you do the math and realize that the radius of a wind turbine can be 150 feet, you will find that the tips of the blades can move at 400-500 mph, as fast as a jumbo jet over land. Of course, the jumbo jet is flying at 30000 feet, where there are no birds or bats.
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