Lawsuit threatened over Western MD wind farm (Windpower hurts bats)

Baltimore Sun ^ | 7-3-10 | Tim Wheeler

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If free markets were allowed to work in this country, those with child-like thinking, such as the environ-MENTAL-ists, would be asking us if we wanted fries with that.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If you want to blame somebody, blame the governments, with all their tax credits for these things. I personally don’t mind wind farms; I just don’t want them subsidized (nor any other form of energy).

If there weren’t subsidies, there’d be less of these wind turbines on your mountains.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good ol’ Feinswine: don’t spoil our bone-dry, barren, inhospitable desert, where it rarely rains, with solar panels.

I hope you guys throw this b!tch out when she’s up for re-election.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I love it when liberal poster causes collide.

[Eagles6]

Exactly. We wouldn’t even be having this conversation if it weren’t for subsidies.

[anglian]

New publications on bats and wind turbines
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=bats&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wind-watch.org&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

[anglian]

From the Financial Post:

Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).

Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark’s largest energy utilities) tells us that “wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions.” The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that “Germany’s CO2 emissions haven’t been reduced by even a single gram,” and additional coal- and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.

Indeed, recent academic research shows that wind power may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions in some cases, depending on the carbon-intensity of back-up generation required because of its intermittent character. On the negative side of the environmental ledger are adverse impacts of industrial wind turbines on birdlife and other forms of wildlife, farm animals, wetlands and viewsheds.

Nor is the case of Denmark encouraging on the economic side.

Its electricity generation costs are the highest in Europe. Niels Gram of the Danish Federation of Industries says, “windmills are a mistake and economically make no sense.” Aase Madsen , the Chair of Energy Policy in the Danish Parliament, calls it “a terribly expensive disaster.”
http://www.wind-watch.org/

[anglian]

over 30,000 birds of prey have died trying to fly through this gauntlet of spinning blades. Some estimate the mortality higher at 40,000. Over 1000 of these fatalities have been Golden Eagles“ Photos courtesy Marc Duchamp, Save-The-Eagles The list of slaughtered species includes eagles, kites, hawks, cranes, bats, ducks, swifts, swans, geese, gulls, bustards, vultures, owls, grouse and more. Bear in mind reported losses don’t include carcasses claimed by scavenging animals before being recorded, nor bodies either too small or too mangled to be recognizable or even to leave enough remains to be found at all. Chilling Statistics BIRDS & WINDFARMS - A COMPILATION OF CREDIBLE BIRD MORTALITY REPORTS. http://www.iberica2000.org/ES/Articulo.asp?Id=1875

[gundog]

We used to try to swat 'em with tennis rackets in the attic of the ΣΑΕ house...

Sounds like a bloody nose waiting to happen.

[nascarnation]

Shredded poultry to serve to the starving victims of the Baraqqi depression.

Sounds like a win-win situation!