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Study: Hey, these offshore wind farms aren't good for the ecosystem
Hotair ^ | 12/04/2022 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 12/04/2022 9:23:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/04/2022 9:23:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They cause global warming - the very thing fraudulent libtard claim they’re supposed to save us from


2 posted on 12/04/2022 9:33:53 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind

bird cuisinarts


3 posted on 12/04/2022 9:33:55 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SeekAndFind

An article designed to increase stupidity so conservatives make fools of themselves? There are legitimate reasons why our energy will never be principally derived from wind energy, but the people who don’t want us developing our own oil, gas and coal are the same people who don’t want us finding means of at least partially replacing our reliance on them: OPEC. And this sort is sort of fale concern for the environment only helps the sand nazis take over the world.

“Wait… weren’t we supposedly doing all of this to reduce carbon?”

Uh, no. the amount of carbon is relatively fixed. We’re trying to reduce carbon dioxide in the air, not carbon in the ocean floor.

“A recent British ornithology report found a decrease of five percent in the seabird populations in the region of the larger wind farms. And that’s not even counting the ones that are chopped up when they fly into the turbines.”

Uh, no. That’s exactly the sort of thing which impacts the study results.

“When they go out of service, they can either be left there to rust away or be taken down. But the material used to create the massive blades on the turbines is not recyclable. It’s estimated that after the new, proposed American offshore wind farms are retired, America will have hundreds of thousands of tons of those blades to dispose of. Where will we put them all?”

Oh, I don’t know what do we do with the other hundreds of MILLIONS of tons of rusty iron we produce? Oh, yeah... For starters, the blades aren’t recyclable in the sense of being reusable, but the iron sure as hell is recoverable.

Look, it’s this simple. The same folks who don’t want using our own oil and coal also don’t want us developing replacements for them: OPEC.


4 posted on 12/04/2022 9:42:39 PM PST by dangus
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30 million acres Gulf of Mexico to be used. WooHoo!


5 posted on 12/04/2022 9:51:30 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t they make biodegradable blades now?


6 posted on 12/04/2022 9:52:02 PM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12) 4)
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To: joshua c

Yes, they make great bird chippers.

Notice how silent the worry warts are about that.


7 posted on 12/04/2022 10:01:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the {Const'l} REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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Each windmill can be compared to an anti-compressor or expander. The air pushing the windmill blades performs work in order to create electricity and the wind turbine acts as an anti-compressor and, theoretically, the air downstream of the turbine should be lower than air temperature upstream, ever so slightly. The air performs work which is converted into electricity and there must therefore be a temperature drop. C’mon y’all freeperphysicysts help me out thermodynamically and tell me that I am not bullsh*tting. Work is done by the air on the windturbine which nust result in an air temperature drop as per First Law. We cannot create electricity from moving air without a change in temp and press. Environmentalists better realize it. These very changes may just adversely affect the climate if the farms are large enough. Sorry if I busted Greta’s balloon. My advice: Drill baby, drill. C’mon baby, light my fire.


8 posted on 12/04/2022 10:26:59 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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How about (P1*V1)/T1 = (P2*V2)/T2 ?

What are some values, or estimates to plug in?


9 posted on 12/04/2022 10:42:55 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: SeekAndFind

And again, the windmill blades fiberglass and carbon fiber components CAN be recycled via grinding and TDP.
They cannot be recycled at no cost, and the recycling yields OIL!
Basically the resins are returned to their original form before being made into resins.
TDP is not as efficient as originally hoped but it is a proven tech.
It can also be utilized to nearly eliminate land-fill operations but would require subsidies.
Funny that, I have to pay a fee to use a landfill, there is no rational reason that fee is not going to operate TDP.
Oh wait, the pay-off’s and grift of the land-fill industry are well established and sacrosanct.


10 posted on 12/04/2022 11:06:56 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is the solution...

And to do this they have to cut down living CO2-consuming trees and use oil to produce the synthetics in the cushions.

Next will be to create housing for the homeless using decommissioned turbine blades.

11 posted on 12/05/2022 3:21:55 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake pandemic, fake vaccine, fake election, fake president.)
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Not to mention that it will be very expensive to remove these defunct blades and towers.

If the economy is faltering in 20 years, who will budget for wind turbine removal? Nobody.

They will stand as eyesores, until they fall, and become hazards to navigation.

A testimony to man’s folly.


12 posted on 12/05/2022 3:53:53 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 353FMG

All true.

Plus, these turbines must be constantly topped off with lube oil. 100s of gallons of lube oil per year, per turbine, if I recall correctly.

The old dirty lube oil doesn’t magically disappear. It’s going somewhere. A lot of it drips down, so in the case off offshore turbines, the dirty oil is going into the sea.


13 posted on 12/05/2022 3:56:18 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: NWFree

It’s a get rich quick scheme for people like Gore, Kerry and Gates who invest in the heavily subsidized tech. Yet another transfer of wealth from the tax payers to the billionaire class.


14 posted on 12/05/2022 3:57:51 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: 353FMG

Yes I read that the droughts in some places may actually be caused by the change in wind patterns over the surface of the earth from the turbines. Tehachapi, California has thousands of these turbines and a major drought.


15 posted on 12/05/2022 4:12:32 AM PST by Greenidgypsy (I loathe the MSM.)
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To: 353FMG

“Each windmill can be compared to an anti-compressor or expander.”

Spot on. The easy version I ask greenie beanies is: If we put up too many windmills won’t the winds slow down?

AND when ever I hear “follow the science” I ask if they know the laws of thermodynamics. Of course they don’t. Then I ask which direction heat goes. They always say up which is wrong.


16 posted on 12/05/2022 4:41:46 AM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have also read that low frequency pulses induced into the water screw up the sonar used by wales.


17 posted on 12/05/2022 4:48:46 AM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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“the air downstream of the turbine should be lower than air temperature upstream”

Hey, that will counter global warming! Sounds good, huh, but the electricity generated will ultimately produce heat that will cancel the cooling effect.


18 posted on 12/05/2022 5:03:46 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: NWFree

I think the wind farms slow the wind down causing Climate Change.


19 posted on 12/05/2022 6:23:32 AM PST by oldasrocks
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Oh, yeah... For starters, the blades aren’t recyclable in the sense of being reusable, but the iron sure as hell is recoverable.

As I understand it the blades are made of fiberglass.

20 posted on 12/05/2022 6:26:00 AM PST by DouglasKC
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