As much as I hate to be on the side of Earth first, I’m going to agree with them for other reasons.
OOOOO
Pretty.
Not.
IMHO, nuke power plants are MUCH quieter and do less environmental harm in the long run. The power generated per land area ratio for nukes is probably much higher, ergo much more efficient.
"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.
From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi2), and about 3 mi2 for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."
New from Peenmen Enterprises, the bird salad shooter! Folks, have you ever had a beautiful bald eagle and said “Boy, I really need a fast way to turn this thing into julienne fries” ? Well now you can, with the new bird salad shooter, also known as a wind farm. It also has something to do with green power or something, I don’t know.
A new wind turbine technology called the Windtamer turbine as shown here by this picture:
...When scaled up could generate just as much power as a conventional wind turbine, but it has the advantages of 1) no needing towers hundreds of feet high, 2) automatically follows wind direction and can operate in high and low wind speeds, eliminating the need for mechanically-expensive gearbox systems to control turbine speed and to turn the wind turbine to face the wind, and 3) because birds see it as a solid object it will mostly eliminate the problem of bird kills.
I want one of those in my back yard! I want to see it run my meter backwards and reduce my power bill.
They’re an eyesore.
There goes that little ‘slice of heaven’...way to go, greenie jackasses...
The only kind of power production the kooks support is the kind you aren’t proposing to use.