Thanks Kate.

They forgot to install the troughs to direct the dead bird corpses to a convenient location for pickup by the local bird watchers club.

Mock all you want, but all the windmills you see in the picture, together, are capable of powering an average household toaster for up to two minutes! (Assuming you only eat toast on windy days)

What a huge waste of money and damage to the landscapes. Not to mention the birds (although a few less Canada geese might be nice).

How can greenies and lefties justify any of this, particularly in their own minds? You'd think their heads would explode.

That's quite the obstacle course for hawks and falcons!

How can greens be so evil?

An incredible example of ecolunacy. The energy density of wind is, on average, so low that only a deluded fool would consider producing electricity from it. Water, OTOH, has a significantly greater energy density, especially when it happens to be running downhill. It doesn't take more than a few feet of water in a hydroelectric installation to equal the power of a massive windmill.

Hydroelectric power is a renewable resource as all the water used is recycled. Dams provide a reliable source of water for irrigation. To illustrate how beneficial this is, one should take a drive through eastern Washington state -- this is a desert except where people have irrigated with water from the reservoirs. For some strange reason, watermelons hate hydroelectric power - probably because it doesn't kill enough birds or some reason known only to them.

The other nice thing about hydroelectric power is that it is a stable source of energy; sure it takes a few years to fill up the newly created lake but once it's filled, it can produce power 24 hours/day.

I guess the main objections to this "renewable" energy source are:
(a) it actually works
(b) the power it produces is too cheap
(c) it produces reliable power
(d) there is far less opportunity for graft and paying off ones friends with a mature power generation technology.

This sounds so much like the Green energy fiasco that McGuinty is pushing -- I think I am going to be ill.

It's pork chop hill for birds.

We have a bunch of these eyesores in what was a pretty little place in Manitoba (St Leon)..it is creepy scary almost driving thru there now.An absolute blight on the landscape.

The MSM have been giving wind power a free ride, which begs the question -- are they on the take, or just plain stupid?

time to let politicians and beaurocraps know who is paying theri rent!!!!

I suspect in the not to distant future folks will hate the sight of them with the lack of energy produced , as well as the maintence for a loss.
Only the Greenies could think this works in any meaningful way. Nothing comes easy.

rg, are you kidding me?

I KNEW it was bad... but not THAT bad, is it!

Did y'all know that common det-cord will cut 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick mild steel plate? Uh huh.

It's all the fault of Tea Party folks. Had they agreed to unlimited funding for greenworks some day, some century it would have been viable.

Looks like an gigantic bird filter.

"This sounds so much like the Green energy fiasco that McGuinty is pushing"

The Saskatchewan NDP have announced that so-called renewable energy will be a major part of its platform for the upcoming November election. Nuclear power generation is out .... windmills are in. Of course, the intrepid Peter Prebble is heading up the initiative and Mr. Lingenfelter, who appears to have had a change of heart, is in full agreement.

Oh well ... when you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the election I guess you can say anything. The only Sask residents stupid enough to buy into Prebble's nonsense already vote NDP.

I can't believe people still buy into this bird massacre nonsense. I live next door to the windmills at Speedy Creek and often work around them and I have yet to find a single dead bird.

Revnant Dream, it's worse than you think. There are no decommissioning requirements placed on builders or owners of wind farms. When they are no longer economic, or have exceeded their operational lifetime, the owner can simply abandon them.

Taxpayers will have to pay the cost of disposing of them, and it's a lot of concrete that has to be dug up. If you're a landowner and you rented the property for them to be sited on, you will have to pay it unless you've got contract provisions which state otherwise.

As a result, there are dead windfarms littered all over California and Hawaii. And no one is removing the relics.

Actually those fans are right by my house, but I only switch 'em on when the breeze dies down at night.

Supposing the things HATCHED birds, they would still be folly.