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Red-throated Diver bird kills off second phase of wind farm
Financial Times ^
| 2/19/14
| Pilita Clark
Posted on 03/01/2014 4:35:32 PM PST by Libloather
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Global killing.
To: Libloather
YOu don’t mess with English Birders.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:37:01 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Libloather; shibumi
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:37:21 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Libloather
Libs eating their own. Excellent! [steeples fingers]
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:39:49 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Libloather
It’s about time that lawmakers treated the environmental impacts of wind power as seriously as they do the impacts of the fossil fuel, and nuclear industries.
To: Libloather
Gee, what a mess. Save the birds or save the planet? I know. Save both. Kill the people.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:44:49 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Salamander; Ezekiel
“...impact on birds.”
Ya don’t say.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:45:44 PM PST
by
cyn
(Benghazi.)
To: cyn
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:55:01 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Libloather
...companies building the worlds biggest offshore wind farm, London Array, ditched a second phase of the huge project, largely because of uncertainties about its impact on birds... There are no "uncertainties" about the impact of wind farms on birds. They kill them. In large quantities.
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posted on
03/01/2014 4:59:35 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
To: Libloather
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:00:12 PM PST
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: cyn
It goes a little something
like this [but with less Coke and more screaming feathers]
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:05:50 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A3NuPL7GP48/USE933X2DQI/AAAAAAAAKZg/1Dy_XZ0B-Oc/s1600/Birds.jpg)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4IbcBowGZfU/TTc4FO31k1I/AAAAAAAAAM0/Jhssb3J_v-E/s1600/wind-turbine-bird-kill.jpg)
Yup.
This was an ecologically brilliant idea.
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:10:04 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Salamander
The envirofascists are finally showing their true stripes.
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:12:58 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
To: Libloather
As something of a birder, I genuinely feel a sense of loss as hawks, falcons and eagles are sacrificed, unnecessarily, to windfarms.
That these bird-killing machines get an environmental "pass" does illustrate the hypocrisy of the leftie/greens; and, it should cast a doubt on other areas of pseudo-"environmental" sophistry.
(Global warming/climate change comes to mind)
.
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:14:25 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: bert
The Brits call them "divers."
We call them loons.
That's a red-throated loon.
And, yeah, the real loons are the wind power fanatics.
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:15:58 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Libloather
This environmental issues with large-scale wind farms and solar power sites is why the
molten-salt reactor (MSR) looks more and more attractive nowadays.
Unlike conventional light-water pressurized uranium-fueled reactors, MSR's offer these advantages:
1. It uses commonly thorium-232 dissolved in molten fluoride salts as fuel, a lot cheaper to make than the solid fuel rods of uranium-235 now required.
2. You can even use reprocessed uranium-235 fuel rods and plutonium-239 from dismantled nuclear weapons dissolved in molten fluoride salts as fuel, eliminating a major nuclear waste disposal problem.
3. Because the fuel is in liquid form, there is very little "meltdown" risk.
4. It doesn't require a dangerous pressurized reactor vessel.
5. Doing an emergency shutdown (SCRAM) only requires dumping the liquid fuel from the reactor.
6. By using closed-loop Brayton turbines to turn the power generators, you eliminate the need for expensive, space-wasting cooling towers or locating the reactor near a large body of cooling water.
7. The radioactive waste generated is very small in amount, and only has a half-life of under 300 years. That means very cheap waste disposal, if the nuclear medicine industry doesn't grab it first!
Small wonder why there is major revived interest in this type of nuclear reactor, especially since thorium-232 is relatively easy to find on Earth (and there is a lot on the Moon also), so running out of fuel is definitely not an issue.
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:16:13 PM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cold blooded, merciless killers?
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:17:17 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Seaplaner
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:17:17 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Salamander
LoL,
Will never be able to look at a ‘sky blender’ again without chuckling. :)
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:20:56 PM PST
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
To: moose07
Hey, if *I* had a blender like that and I could afford to break it....
;D
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posted on
03/01/2014 5:23:09 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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