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Killer Blades: Turbines meant to help environment may hurt local wildlife species
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| July 19, 2009
| Joshua Hull
Posted on 07/19/2009 2:22:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
Like clockwork.
as an alternative energy form reaches economic viability—
Presto
Like magic an abundance of reasons why it is an environmental threat.
Environmentalists want nothing except an end to capitalism.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:25:47 PM PDT
by
lonestar67
("I love my country a lot more than I love politics," President George W. Bush)
To: smokingfrog
I like to joke with my kids that these things are alien housing projects, or cylon baseships. What a waste of money.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:25:49 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) We know how to deal with Iran.)
To: smokingfrog
"If an agricultural pesticide killed as many birds as these turbines probably are, they'd be regulated right out of the market," Kendall said, adding one report in Canada found a single turbine could kill more than 100 birds a night. Probably... could... maybe... kinda... sorta...
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:28:03 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: smokingfrog
Oh, Boo-freakin’ Hoo!
Like there aren’t enough Canada Geese to go around. Rats with wings.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:29:24 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: smokingfrog
Nothing ruins a pristine landscape like huge windmills. The same people who support these monstrosities in fragile environments oppose small oil drills in desolate frozen tundras or barely visible nuclear powerplants.
Liberals are insane.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:29:25 PM PDT
by
Prokopton
To: smokingfrog
![](http://www.walkinginla.com/Page2/images/717pigeon.jpg)
Oh! The birdamity!! Stop the slaughter.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:33:25 PM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: smokingfrog
Posh!!! they'll have absolutely NO impact on the "pristine" environment
![Photobucket](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b164/digger48/Wind_Turbines_low.jpg)
Nor will Solar....
![Photobucket](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b164/digger48/solar-panels2.jpg)
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:33:54 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: smokingfrog
Did King Obama give a shi@. Just part of his childlike destruction of the oil, coal, and nuke source of energy.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:37:44 PM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: smokingfrog
hmmm, these wind mills may not be a bad idea after all!
Imagine getting up early in the morning, going out into the field and picking up fresh meat for the day.
yeah, gross thought.
Any spotted owls spotted near these windmills?
To: smokingfrog
PETA is all over this.....
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:41:36 PM PDT
by
cranked
To: smokingfrog
WIldlife can, and will adapt to their environment. The stupid ones will die - it’s natural selection in action.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:42:35 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(ESPN MNF: 3 Putzes talking about football on TV while I'm trying to watch a game.)
To: smokingfrog
The spinning blades - many of which are more than 100 feet in length - present a unique challenge for birds and bats, Didn't anyone but me remember that this was what happened the last time the left pushed windmills for energy -- back in the 70s, I think -- until they discovered that birds can't see the blades when they're spinning? Don't they have any new lousy ideas? :(
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:44:00 PM PDT
by
maryz
To: smokingfrog
I think if they filled the blades with Snail Darters or Spotted Owls, the resulting sound would scare the birds away.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
To: lonestar67
I haven’t found any evidence that wind power is approaching viability, but yeah, you’re correct. It’s the hazard of having idiot government and academic morons decide policy. They can stand on the sidelines and make edicts, but they couldn’t make it work. Like the compact fluorescent light bulbs. Ten years ago, mercury was way too dangerous for thermometers. Now, they’re mandating mercury bulbs and outlawing incandescent.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:47:39 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: smokingfrog
"the mere presence of the mammoth towers could disrupt one the area's most threatened inhabitants, the lesser prairie chicken." Lesser spotted prairie chicken....Ha! .....
.....I was more thinking of the human race.
1. The high speed shadow of the blades causes epileptic fits...
2. Noise...particularly at night... when humans try to get some sleep.
3. Disintegrating great blades are hurled all over the countryside causing maim-death
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:51:36 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(USA #1; Pirates -3...Voting them all out of office would be a sufficient pay cut)
To: smokingfrog
I live out here in West Texas, and live next to the world’s largest Wind Ranch (NOT farms ;) ).
We rather like them out here. They’re actually quite fascinating and majestic. We really don’t care how many buzzards they kill. We especially like “wind rights”, much like mineral rights, which means we get paid for something we usually call a necessary annoyance - West Texas wind.
Infrastructure? Bring it. They’re aint much else out here.
Its provided us with another “oil boom” if you will, and we don’t have to worry about it running out;)
Is it a cure-all? Not by any means. But we are a perfect place for Wind energy.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:56:27 PM PDT
by
pvoce
('Good' sense and 'Common' sense are two entirely different concepts.)
To: DTogo
Just like the "tens of millions" of birds that die every year flying into skyscrapers.
These people are so full of crap.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:57:42 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
To: neodad
What a waste of money.
Yes it is. The most costly power we can generate.
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:58:20 PM PDT
by
Big Horn
(Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
To: pvoce
How many prairie chickens have you seen lately?
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posted on
07/19/2009 2:58:56 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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