So, what is an accurate number or methodology for determining the current number of permanently inactive wind turbines? When it is not blowing, they require full-time backup from conventional power plants. Green Junk: 15k Abandoned Windmills Litter the In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. This article is the work of the From Alex Newman writing in the New American: Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies pumped into the so-called The majority of the permanently inactive wind turbines were built in the 1970s and are very old technology. This means that birds of prey will most likely be put to the side in favor of wind farms. According to the Golden Gate Audubon Society 75-110 Golden Eagles, 380 Burrowing Owls, 300 Red-Tailed Hawks and 333 American Kestrels are killed by the turbines every year. [6] They are under review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. 14,000 ABANDONED WIND TURBINES LITTER THE UNITED STATES. (LogOut/ WInd turbines dont whiz around like the fan you have in your office. Its a bubble which bursts as soon as the government subsidies end therein lies a lesson that is going be learnt by those that sought to make fortunes out of tax payer subsidies, the whole renewables industry of solar, wind and biomass is just an artificial bubble incapable of surviving without subsides from governments and tax payers which many businesses and NGOs like WWF, FoE and Greenpeace now think is their god given right, as the money is going on Green Climate Religion approved clean energy.The Green evangelists who push so hard for these wind farms, as usual have not thought the whole idea through, no surprises for a left agenda like Climate Change, which like all things Green and socialist is just a knee jerk reaction: Altamonts turbines have since 2008 been tethered four months of every year in an effort to protect migrating birds after environmentalists filed suit. Following a lengthy discussion with Margaret Atwood and others related to siting of wind turbines in a major birding area on her blog, he became a blogger on energy concerns, focusing on debunking myths about wind energy. Hence the term I used above Hybrid where your solar produces on sunny days and your wind produces on cloudy, usually windy days, and if you can situate your site near a stream you could add small scale hydroelectric to your options. I think its okay as a small part of an overall energy strategy, but not as a sole source. Read my posts to find out more about me. A more reasonable but still very conservative upper limit of 1 per cent would bring that down to a maximum of 2,400 permanently inactive wind turbines. Renewable Energy: Still Breaking Wind The same areas that are good for siting wind farms are also good for birds of prey and migrating birds to pass through, shame for the birds that none of the Green mental midgets who care so much about everything in nature, thought that one through when pushing their anti fossil fuel agenda.
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