Posted on 07/20/2023 7:09:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Where would you like to begin in counting all the environies in Scotland’s effort to destroy the environment in order to save it?
Scotland has been busily erecting Stonehengian-like multi-story bird terminators — wind turbines — in deferential indulgence to the Green Gods. Now we learn that in addition to killing all manner of birds of prey living in the forests, the independent-minded Scots are killing forests to erect these largest of all virtue signals.
The UK Daily Telegraph reports that nearly “16 million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in Scotland to make way for wind farms, an SNP minister had admitted amid a major drive to erect more turbines.” Now before you go worrying your pretty little head about spotted owls and the barred owls that eat them or whatever creature you fancy, this forest-sized mass of trees has been systematically chopped down for years. Indeed, they’ve been cutting down these trees at a rate of 1,700 per day for the past 23 years. This is into the billions of board feet of timber brought down and used hopefully to good purposes, but it’s the Scottish government so who knows.
“To reduce CO2 emissions” (yeah right) Scotland cut down 16 million trees to build windmills.
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So let’s do the back-of-the-envelope math here. They’re chopping down trees, reducing the O2 output of that region, because, unless they’ve replaced the study of photosynthesis with another new sex toy exhibit, most school kids remember that trees and green plants produce oxygen. At the same time, the tree chopping also increases the CO2 output. Trees are CO2 sinks. When trees are processed or burned in a wildfire, they release CO2.
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Hope it doesn’t include the square foot I was planning to buy to claim my lordship. That would be a real disappointment.
They supposedly have a 20 year operational life, but a 21 year payback period.
Actual operational life is closer to 10 years.
Anybody who thinks wind power is a good idea should put his money where his mouth is and buy his own micro wind turbines (~1kW to 2kW each) for his own use. If it works as good as you think, you’ll reap the rewards. If it doesn’t work, nobody else loses because of your idea.
Well the good news is eventually those windmills will break, and collapse, and probably not be replaced, and eventually the trees will grow back.
Communists are very good at solving imaginary issues which always cause real problems.
They’ve gone full retard and now are missing the point about what the infamous “climate change” panic is all about.
Makes me think of Easter Island. That led to an extinction of a society leaving only a bunch of big heads sticking up out of the earth. Maybe someone can paint eyes on the windmills?
In NJ, Great Adventure wanted to cut down a few hundred acres to put up solar panels.
A business near me did that to an acre. Subsidies and incentives.
Put the panels in parking lots.
Shade in summer, snow slides off in winter.
In 25 years, a new generation of idiot leftist and NIMBY Karens will be protesting they ecological disaster and eyesore of decaying, disused windmill towers all over the landscape, that never gave the returns promised, and bankrupted their owners and local governments, such that no one has the money to remove them
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