A wind farm requires 700 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a fracking site, according to analysis by the energy department’s recently-departed chief scientific advisor.
h/t peterj
A wind farm requires 700 times more land to produce the same amount of energy as a fracking site, according to analysis by the energy department’s recently-departed chief scientific advisor.
h/t peterj
yes and about one thousand times more than a gas plant.
Yup. Corn for ethanol, solar panels, and windmills, are responsible for the permanent destruction of more wildlife habitat in this province than creeping urbanization and conventional logging combined.
You mean a wynntario cancelled gas plant or three?
These are actual inconvenient truths
that’s assuming the people in charge actually want to produce energy in an efficient manner. Never attribute to stupidity that which could also be attributed to malice.
Let us call I a collateral damage.
The cost of removing these eyesores should be directly on the people who put them up.
One hopes that Kathleen Wynne will be driven into poverty because of it.
Used to work in design and commission in the second half of 20’th century on a number of coal fired power plants in Alberta.
Can tell you for a fact that the power plants we designed were up to day superior to any other in North America and certainly vastly superior to any other design anywhere.
Lev, yeah those designed power plants had one big flaw: they had a four letter word attached to them: COAL. Remember, today’s society have already prejudged many things and invoking the word coal, or especially nuclear will bring about irrational behavior and/or complete stupidity in leftoids.
Dixie Lee Ray made the same observation about solar panels. There is only
so much power that can fall on any given square foot of PV panels. The
trouble is that sunlight is too diffuse and the efficiency of these devices
have long since hit a brick wall.
In one of her books she stated that in order to supply all of the energy needs
of the city of New York, it would take an array larger than the city itself.
As to the bird-shredders, I noticed that every time I passed a wind farm in
Southern California, there were fewer and fewer of these things turning. They
are like Vacuum tubes in early computers or fluorescent lights above a factory
floor: At any given time, 25 percent or more can be on the blink. The major
difference is that these are easily repaired or replaced, unlike bird shredders.
When even routine maintenance involves a 250-300′ climb and major repairs are
impossible without a Sikorsky Sky Crane, it is no wonder these things are
left to rot like Central California farm lands.
If you want a really small energy footprint, you’ve gotta’ go with a nuke plant.
Endangred birds being harmed by windturbines and the granola munchers couldnt care less oil up those birds and their squaling BAN OIL,BAN DRILLING,BAN FRACKING and they can expect the usial hollyweed crowd(Robert Redford,Matt Damon)to appear in some comercial or junk mail to oppose drills and fracking and the Greenpeace idiots running around in silly costumes or occupying oil rigs like the Watermellons(Green on outside,red ,insidethats)that ,they ,are
We have fracking pipeline on – well – under our property upstate, our deer camp.
The well-head is down the road and except for some occasional noise you wouldn’t know anything was there. There are more deer, birds, small critters in that area then in the entire 10,.000 acres of state forest that we horseback ride in almost every weekend mid-state. You don’t even hear birds there. Probably because they are in the barns where the food is.
Setting aside wildlife sanctuary is a joke. On the taxpayer.
And that same lack of impact can’t be said for the wind turbines and solar farms.