Posted on 09/03/2023 7:08:37 AM PDT by george76
I guess whales’ lives don’t matter anymore to the left.
Stinking climate change freaks and their goofy ideas killing the planet, not saving it.
They are criminals.
You have to break a few eggs to make a Virtue Grandstand.
This is PRICELESS.
There is one group of Greenie Weenies pushing wind power down our throats and a group of Greenie Weenies saying wind farms kill whales, AND yet another group of Greenie Weenies complaining about pollution from windmill waste in Sweetwater Tx.
Conclusion, GREENIE WEENIES are NEVER happy.
I agree.
Alternate power is going to have consequences. Want to eliminate coal fired energy? Fine. But the cost will be people and animals dying. People from freezing to death and birds dying by flying into spinning turbines, for example.
Whales are dumb... Especially North Atlantic Right Whales... They called them ‘Right’ Whales because they were the easiest to hunt. They tend to swim towards you, rather than away from you.
It’s amazing that there are any North Atlantic Right Whales left.... Only a few hundred, or so. There are thousands of Right Whales left in other areas of the planet, but those areas aren’t used for fishing as much as the Atlantic is.
Very old and outlawed technique, but it works.
Whey would this be any different with the Wind turbines. We are talking about high current high voltage. Fish are susceptible injury by electricity.
A wind far can kill all the eagles it wants. But you even have a single feather from on that you found on the ground and your life is going to be miserable for the next several months. (Fines and possible jail.)
A friend back in the seventies converted his house to run off a single wind generator. I asked him the downsides. (He’d converted everything to 12V and gas.) He said, “Every week I have to go out and pick up a bushel basket of dead birds. I’ve converted my pantry to an industrial waste dump and those batteries have to be replaced every few years. Oh, and the neighbors hate the sound.”
but the Environmentalists have no trouble killing millions of trees
The Issue is never the Issue.
Each windmill has to be drilled 300 feet into the rockbed.
NC will need about 1200, IIRC, and once those die out, they are left standing. There is no recycling and they continue their killing, destruction of the environment and are outright eyesores. AND they require OIL or GAS to FUNCTION and to be built. They don’t tell you that, do they?
OR you can have ONE 1/2 mile station off the coast, visible to very few.
Exactly. The environmentalists want energy without consequences, which isn’t realistic. The left want to support their green investments, which aren’t green or even ‘greener’. The right wants cheap reliable energy which doesn’t rely on unstable foreign governments, and is diverse enough to withstand catastrophe.
If people were just told the truth, we could have civil discussions, and the media wasn’t so controlled, Americans could figure it out.
“Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” - George Carlin
I was thinking about this the other day. Here in Washington state, the big fight is over noise from F-18’s training at Whidbey Island and the impact of that noise on the whales in Puget Sound.
So if their argument is that noise waves emitted hundreds of feet in the air is detrimental to whales, then why wouldn’t noise and vibration from offshore wind turbines do the the same?
I don’t by the jet noise argument, but direct noise and vibration that translates to the seafloor seems like a legitimate argument.
I am always reminded of the guy who blew around me in OKC forty eight years ago. On his car he had a large plastic whale and a big sign...”SAVE THE WHALES! BOYCOTT JAPANESE PRODUCTS!”
The car he was driving was a Japanese made Datsun.
Wonder what he would say about whales being killed by SAVE THE EARTH types.
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