Posted on 05/20/2015 4:34:27 AM PDT by thackney
For all that the left wants to spend on glowbull warming, it would be much cheaper to just rebuild all our cities and all the areas where wind energy is to be harnessed such that they are 500 feet higher than now. Then, we just build all the wind turbines at "ground level", which is 500' higher.
Think of all the money we'd save!
If wind turbines could be used to generate a breeze on hot humid windless days then they might be useful.
Each year, wind turbines kill 500,000.
“I estimated 888,000 bat and 573,000 bird fatalities/year (including 83,000 raptor fatalities) at 51,630 megawatt (MW) of installed wind-energy capacity in the United States in 2012,” writes K. Shawn Smallwood, author of the study that was published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin.
Nearly all mechanical equipment eventually has failures.
Fire at coal- and natural gas-fired power plant injures one
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2015/03/fire-at-coal-and-natural-gas-fired-power-plant-injures-one.html
Fire at Coal Power Plant Takes Facility Out of Service Indefinitely
http://www.powermag.com/fire-at-coal-power-plant-takes-facility-out-of-service-indefinitely/
We shouldn’t stop using coal or natural gas, or refineries for that matter, because of a few fires.
My local community college installed a turbine, and now they train folks how to service them. Any industry the government bets our money on is a ‘good’ growth industry...
The US DofEnergy is NOT an unbiased source of information. Along with the rest of this Administration, they are populated with the 'true believers' who have the inmate bias towards these 'alternative' energy sources.
While I am not innately against wind power, it is at best (current tech), a supplementary power source given the limitations of the local conditions and wind speed generator restrictions. Add to that the need for power lines to every turbine and the need for the utilities to placate government while still maintaining the essential base load service network, and you have a building logistical problem.
Bye-the-bye, add another willful indifference by government to the above mentioned bird-kill problems. The EPA has had noise pollution regulations for decades. The number of successful invocations of these regulations? Minimal!
we dont need government we need a FREE MARKETPLACE
that will bring ECONOMICAL products to consumers
not useless crap.......
you want one of these noise makers / eagle killers in your back yard
About the only thing windmills generate is liberal self-righteousness.
A taxpayer supported rope around the moon would probably do the same thing. These leftist idiots are insufferable.
Ban windows!
Really, I think the OP is just attempting to point out a conflict/hypocrisy of leftist ideology.
I’ve learned long ago that it may be self-satisfying to point out leftist hypocrisy,
but they are seldom phased by it.
Most people would not want any commercial power plant in their back yard, just reality.
LOLOL
We gonna kill all them birds,, damn birds..
and then we’re going after drones..
and if a tower or two topples and squashes somebody..
Hey, you want safe efficient cheap energy?
You got it.. rub your hands together ..real fast..
I feel a new fairytale coming out. “Jack and The Turbine”.
God those things are horrible. Lets make them a mile tall.
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