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.
Consider the recent review by Trevor Butterworth of the book Power Hungry by author Robert Bryce :
“Once you’ve carpeted your tract of wilderness with turbines and gotten over any guilt you might feel about the thousands of birds you’re about to kill, prepare to be underwhelmed and underpowered. Look at Texas, Mr. Bryce says: It ranks sixth in the world in total wind-power production capacity, and it has been hailed as a model for renewable energy and green jobs by Republicans and Democrats alike. And yet, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the state’s electricity grid, just “8.7 percent of the installed wind capability can be counted on as dependable capacity during the peak demand period.” The wind may blow in Texas, but, sadly, it doesn’t blow much when it is most needed—in summer. The net result is that just 1% of the state’s reliable energy needs comes from wind.
If using a huge amount of real estate to generate a tiny amount of energy from an intermittent energy source sounds deranged, consider, too, that we haven’t yet found the Holy Grail for storing wind-generated energy. Wind is either an instant energy snack or a famine. It must be used when it’s there or immediately replaced when it isn’t.”