[DTogo]

Yes, have seen them, touched them, heard them, know a lot about them. On a windy day, wind turbines make less noise than the rushing sound of the wind blowing in your ears. Have never seen a single dead bird or bat at the base of the wind turbines I have been to.

Wind energy is not the be-all end-all solution, never said it was, but it can be part of the solution.

[familyop]

"On a windy day, wind turbines make less noise than the rushing sound of the wind blowing in your ears."

On a windy day, they make far less noise than a short, fat, gossiping, nosy, jealous, coveting, neighborhood commie HOA hag.

[familyop]

You’ll find links to a couple of tough, productive beauties in your Freepmail (for us scary, technical “Neanderthals” only). Warning: such projects require the efforts of men, and the mere appearance of the resulting products have been known to incite campaigns of libel politics and even public corruption from local, socialist screeching harpies and their pecked-upon sidekicks.

[03A3]

Since you know alot about them please tell me how they interface into the grid. On a gusty day when turning do the peaking plants dial back on their output? I have always wondered since you have to rely on the wind are they just creating excess capacity that is not needed?

[hellbender]

"Bats are beneficial consumers of harmful insect pests, and migratory species of bats cross international and interstate boundaries.

Dead bats are turning up beneath wind turbines all over the world. Bat fatalities have now been documented at nearly every wind facility in North America where adequate surveys for bats have been conducted, and several of these sites are estimated to cause the deaths of thousands of bats per year."

Source: http://www.fort.usgs.gov/BatsWindmills/