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It should only take a few million wind turbines and a thousand square miles of solar panels to equal the power of one nuclear reactor. Of course everyone is happy to have these bird killing monsters in their backyard?
Its a nice idea,like magic powers.But in reality? Remote cabins and people who can adapt to using less power are the main users of soar and wind.
I use a few panels and a battery bank. Its ok for limited use.
In Spain the wind farms there produce more power then nine nuclear powers at a fraction of the cost of the nuclear power plants.
Other countries tie in the wind and solar power systems to the hydro electric systems. On windy and sunny days the amount of excess power allows them to pump more water into the dams allowing the dams to function as a battery.
Nuclear reactors are costly because they are costly to build because if you don't want them to meltdown you have to pay a lot of money to make them safe. Also added to the cost is their decommission. In addition to the waste that is produced that has to be taken away and stored for decades because it is toxic the reactors themselves and a good portion of the plant after decades of use become radioactive so they are nuclear waste.
Modern nuclear power plants use four to six of a certain component. These components each cost over 250 million dollars and weight 150 tons. Only a limited number can be made each year due to the requirements needed to build them. Without this component your nuclear power plant is just a deadly radiation emitter instead of a power plant. The waiting list for the component is over a decade.
That is the nuclear bottleneck. Only a handful of nuclear power plants can be built each year worldwide due to the bottleneck.
All we have to do with wind farms is keep on repeating this over and over:
They look like trees, they look like trees...
And lets not forget that wind farms kills numerous types of birds/endangered species and destroys the natural landscape...
They call it energy sprawl
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and American Bird Conservancy say wind turbines kill 440,000 bald and golden eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, cranes, egrets, geese and other birds every year in the United States, along with countless insect-eating bats.
New studies reveal that these appalling estimates are frightfully low and based on misleading or even fraudulent data. The horrific reality is that in the United States alone, “eco-friendly” wind turbines kill an estimated 13 million to 39 million birds and bats every year.
"wind farm-related avian fatalities equated to approximately 46,000 birds in the United States in 2009, but nuclear power plants killed about 460,000 and fossil-fueled power plants 24 million"
Sorry new studies show that wind turbines kill the least amount of birds and bats compared to other power sources such as fossil fuel and nuclear.
Most of the birds killed by wind turbines were old and sickly. Nuclear and fossil fuel on the other hand the birds killed were young and otherwise healthy.
Hilarious that you use a picture of 30 year old turbines taken from a misleading angle. One modern turbine can replace ten of those old turbines in both output and efficiency.
Still a long way from challenging fossil fuels. But it is step in the right direction. At least in my opinion.
Step in the right direction for who? The wildlife that is destroyed by wind farms? I think it's hilarious that greenies just LOVE wind farms, conveniently ignoring their terrible impact on animal and bird life.
Hilarious that you use a picture of 30 year old turbines taken from a misleading angle. One modern turbine can replace ten of those old turbines in both output and efficiency.
Ever lived near a wind farm? Most people that have want desperately to get away from them or have the wind farms move away. Yes, in those European countries too. You bring up an interesting point though, obsolete wind turbines. By the time a wind turbine pays for itself it is old and in need of replacement. Basically, wind turbines are little more than a subsidy consuming prospect.
That misleading angle? How can that be? Think about it.
"wind farm-related avian fatalities equated to approximately 46,000 birds in the United States in 2009, but nuclear power plants killed about 460,000 and fossil-fueled power plants 24 million"
Sorry new studies show that wind turbines kill the least amount of birds and bats compared to other power sources such as fossil fuel and nuclear.
Most of the birds killed by wind turbines were old and sickly. Nuclear and fossil fuel on the other hand the birds killed were young and otherwise healthy.
Wow!
An avian dissertation by a lawyer...
The Avian and Wildlife Costs of Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Vermont Law School
June 30, 2012
LMAO, and not for nothing, the above article uses those famous ambiguous words: "ESTIMATES" "CALCULATIONS" "SOME HAVE CRITICIZED"
***IN OTHER WORDS THEY ARE CLUELESS***
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Absolutely stunning, picturesque nature at it's best right?
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More articles?
Old and sickly? Delusional comes to mind......
Wind turbines: 'Eco-friendly' - but not to eagles
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There is plenty of evidence for the worldwide scale of this tragedy. The world’s largest and most carefully monitored wind farm, Altamont Pass in California, is estimated to have killed between 2,000 and 3,000 golden eagles alone in the past 20 years.
Since turbines were erected on the isle of Smola, off Norway, home to an important population of white-tailed sea eagles, destruction is so great that last year only one chick survived.
Thanks to wind farms in Tasmania, a unique sub-species of wedge-tailed eagles faces extinction.
And here in Britain, plans to build eight wind farms on the Hebridean islands, among Scotland’s largest concentration of golden eagles, now pose a major threat to the species’ survival in the UK.
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