This is insanity. Not to mention the impact on our animals, ocean, and land.
Posted on 08/17/2022 8:57:37 PM PDT by hiho hiho
Who manufactured these crappy wind turbines? They seem to have a life of 20 years at most. Blown transformers too! What a greasy mess. Cattle could die if they eat vegetation coated with these oils.
Thank you for the context.
“Thank you for the context.”
And a bit of history regarding electricity prices in Europe, based on my understanding:
TODAY: 60 cents per kwh (~$11,000/year, if in Texas)
1 YEAR AGO: 30 cents per kwh ( ~$5,500/yr if Texas)
5 YEARS AGO: 10 cents per kwh ( ~$1,800/yr if Texas)
Note that the 5 year ago price in Europe basically matched Texas prices, until about a year ago (now long term prices here are about 13 to 15 cents).
What’s really going to kill them in Europe is when they run their portable electric heaters, which are extremely expensive to operate, as they cost 3 times more than heat pumps...but it’s too late for new heat pumps in Europe.
Insanity describes it correctly. Of course, someone is making money off all this, but the same could be said for Al Capone in his time. If this is someone’s idea of “renewable energy” & apparently it is, that must be where the insanity starts...
and should end....NOW. Has anyone figured any kind of monetary loss to our birds & other animals as that needs to be added into the loss part of the equation too.
Most use synthetic lubricants, not "highly refined" lubricants, which do have to be changed more often than synthetics.
From a distance they look so pacific, pastoral even, with those giant, ‘lumbering’ blades. But if the blades are 135 feet long, (ignoring the hub’s diameter), and if they’re spinning 30 rpm, the speed through the air at the tips of the blades is 389 mph. Not lumbering at all, it’s a giant Veg-O-Matic, (nearly) three times as wide as a regulation basketball court is long.
They don’t just slaughter birds but bats, too, and bats appear to be attracted to all the noises they make, a lot of which are at too high a pitch for humans to hear. Same noises as drive humans barking-dog-mad if they try to live near them.
And in parts of the US (and the world), agriculture benefits enormously from services bats provide free. The cotton farmers around San Antonio get about $3/4ths of a million in pest removal services annually from the bats that live in a single (uncommonly large) cave. There would be no tequila industry without bats because they’re the primary pollinator of the agave plant. They’re also the primary pollinator of banana trees. And many species of plant in the American desert southwest (most notably the saguaro cactus) owe their existence to cross-pollination by bats.
I understand why the birds get the most of the headlines but it bears remembering that, directly or indirectly, they also cost us all by the bats they kill.
Look up the history of the Cleveland science museum’s windmill, they shut it down for safety and costs too much to operate. They had it there for photos with the elite
“They’re also the primary pollinator of banana trees”.
My understanding is bananas don’t propagate by seeds.🤔
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