Webabandoned windfarm - hawaii wind farm stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images green energy windmills hawaii - hawaii wind farm stock pictures, royalty-free photos & The claim that New Zealanders are unconcerned about whether the turbines kill birds has ZERO bearing on whether the turbines actually do kill birds. I guess being an environmentalist means what you folks say it means, and nothing more or less. So, what is an accurate number or methodology for determining the current number of permanently inactive wind turbines? Its a bubble which bursts as soon as the government subsidies end.. 14,000 wind turbines in the USA is laughably unrealistic; the US has about 20 per cent of installed wind generation, so a more likely maximum number is 400 small, old wind turbines around the US. According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), there are just under 240,000 working wind turbines as of Q1 2013. Isnt it amazing, these climate change sceptics are quick to trash professional scientific analysis perceived errors, yet they can go and make arbitrary claims of this nature with no basis of proof! I caution said challengers, I have quite a lot of knowledge in booth small scale and large scale power generation, so dont bother if all you have is talking corporation points. But its haunted not by Hawaiis legendary night marchers. Abandoned windmills in Hawaii, click to enlarge. 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. I began my study and participation in the alternative energy Game in 1973 fresh out of High School. While Hawaii has six abandoned wind farms, most of Californias derelict turbines are only now being removed decades late after disgusted local authorities threatened to sue. In Palm Springs, those who campaigned against the turbines included the late singer Sonny Bono, former husband of Cher. (LogOut/ So why did I use the term Game above. From Alex Newman writing in the New American: Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies pumped into the so-called City: Honolulu; Commissioning: 30 turbines: Siemens SWT-2.3-101 (power 2 300 kW, diameter 101 m) Is there a more immoral form of power generation than wind? California had the big three of wind farm locations Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio, considered the worlds best wind sites. He just comes up with 14,000 for the world through some magical process. Smallwood and cohorts are quite shocked that the US Fish and Wildlife Service havent taken action against the wind turbines in order to enforce the US Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. The US has had wind farms since 1981: Some say that Ka Le is hauntedand it is. Now, how about all the birds, bats, eagles, etc. This article was originally published on Barnard on Wind. Change). As California attempts to divorce itself from fossil-fueled electricity, it may be trading one environmental sin for another although you dont hear state officials admitting it. Mike Barnard has been a deeply interested observer of energy systems for three decades. You would think that the lack of any supporting evidence would prevent people from quoting and then exaggerating even his already wildly exaggerated claim. They lobbied the government to get the bulk of the grant money for research given to them, and to squash the idea of individual power with huge wasteful energy farms, paid for largely with tax money, but after construction, the monthly bill profits goes to the corporations.

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