Posted on 07/19/2009 2:22:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog
You can not have to many honkers.
Many (if not most) of these things I have seen are rusting hulks. Whoever the investor is, they’re probably not getting a very good return.
But alas, that then allows the Feds to come in and subsidize.
Has anybody ever thought that maybe having a ring of wind turbines around airports may make for safer air travel?
not a one. I’m 2 hours south east of Lubbock, so they may not even live here...too many coyotes and feral pigs.
They aren’t worth anything unless they can survive without government subsidies. Wind power is inefficient and who knows how often the silly equipment will have to be replaced? If this were worth the cost, the private sector would invest in it.
Wind power is just another gov’t boondoggle.
DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW.
News to me that a “prairie chicken” can regularly fly as high as the blades on a turbine.
Feed the dead birds to the homeless.
Any spotted owls spotted near these windmills?”
NOPE-= Those live at the local K-Mart in the signs.
See this link for how wind farms mess up weather radar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287639/posts
How much space would a nucular power plant take up compared with these wind or solar farms for the same amount of electricity produced?
You realize this implies there is a greater prairie chicken?
Of course. We have Attwater Prairie Chickens too. (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)
Finally, someone sees what a nightmare these things are. Not only do they destroy the lanscape, they are killing the wildlife (no surprise there). I wonder if they are in the fly path of the Egret’s. Now that would REALLY p*** me off.
Just like Barry wants for our health care sytem. at least he’s consistent in his hatred for everything American.
The serious environmental problems of wind turbines have been known for 30 years. They kill a lot or raptors - federally protected birds of prey. The birds that eat the little varmints on the land. Wind turbines are a blight on the landscape and people cannot live near them because of the intolerable noise.
Thousands of acres of wind and solar power could be replaced by one nuclear power plant. It is amazing how well-meaning but ignorant “green” people agitate for these bird choppers to be erected.
Take note that General Electric is investing heavily in wind power technology. CEO Jeff Immelt and 0bama are buds, and oh by the way.... GE owns NBC.... kinda obvious why the libs are backing wind power despite the poor endangered [fill in the blank] species.
Thank you so much!
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