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Pa. Wind Turbines Destroying Environment
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^
| 7-19-11
Posted on 07/19/2011 7:11:46 PM PDT by Tribune7
Bats, as scary as they are to some, are one of the more useful mammals in creation. The diets of those species common in Pennsylvania consist of mosquitoes and other insect pests including the ones that damage crops.
A colony of 100 brown bats can consume of a quarter-million insects in a single night. Science magazine has estimated the pest control service provided by bats can save farmers about $74 per acre.
Well, the unattractive wind turbines built at the hectoring of the nature worshipers who've managed to convince most that they are the arbiters of all dogma scientific are turning out to be a bit of an environmental disaster.
The 420 wind turbines in use in Pennsylvania killed 10,000 bats last year.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Gardening; Pets/Animals; Politics; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: agriculture; bats; effete; energy; gardening; gothamcountry; pennsylvania; sensitivities; wind; windturbines
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:11:47 PM PDT
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Tribune7
To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:12:16 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(We're flat broke, but he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us.)
To: Tribune7
Proponents are missing a huge benefit here.
Feed the shredded poultry downstream to the starving victims of the Baraqqi Depression.
To: Tribune7
Give the bats time to adapt to the change in their environment...Darwinism in action. Eventually, the smart bats will avoid death by windmill. Dumb ones will still die, like they do now. It’s evolution.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:14:48 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: nascarnation
Same bat time. Same bat breakfast.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:14:57 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
(We're flat broke, but he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us.)
To: Tribune7
what people don't get is that eventually enough of them will be spinning and will propel the earth in reverse orbit. Then we'll talk about anthropomorphic thingamijigs.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:15:07 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
To: Tribune7
College hippies **** up everything they touch. What a joke.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:15:28 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Hey Barry! Compromise this!!!)
To: Tribune7
Doesn’t make a lot of sense. Bats aren’t free flying like birds. They gather....barns, houses, caves...
To: Tribune7
I'm actually more concerned with atmospheric effects. If you sir up the air a few hundred feet up, what will be the downwind result.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:18:59 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Tribune7
It’s a shame that they didn’t get Pelosi, Helen Thomas, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer and Justice Ginsberg, all members of the “Old Bats Society” (affectionately known as the “Old BS”.
To: cripplecreek
They claim anecdotally in China that it affect local weather to a high degree, in that case causing droughts. It needs to be investigated.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:22:10 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: Tribune7
Unintended consequences of liberal policy, volume 3,463,547.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:22:25 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:23:45 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: cripplecreek
Quite a vortex generated by the leading turbines. I am curious about efficacy of the turbines in the wake of those vortices.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:26:54 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Free Vulcan
They also mess with weather radar, which could cost human lives.
To: Tribune7
This sounds like a job for the Dark Knight.
To: Army Air Corps; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:31:27 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: Keith in Iowa
Eventually, the smart bats will avoid death by windmill. Dumb ones will still die, like they do now.Dumb bats eat just as many pest insects as smart bats. Why would you want any bats to die needlessly?
You haven't succumbed to this earth-worshipping, tree-hugging, wind-power crap, have ya?
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:36:33 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Sacajaweau
Doesnt make a lot of sense. Bats arent free flying like birds. They gather....barns, houses, caves...... and other crevices in buildings.
A few years ago, up the street from me was an impressive bat colony. Its location was in a crack between two commercial buildings, right behind a well-lit billboard. That illuminated billboard attracted plenty of flying insects every night, and the bats had a feast.
I suppose someone thought the bats were a nuisance and called an exterminator, and now... no more bats.
To: Tribune7
"And a lot more expensive tomatoes." Demand for tomatoes will drop precipitously as the human population suffers through increases in malaria, west nile virus, yellow fever and other mosquito borne diseases.
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posted on
07/19/2011 7:39:45 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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