Awhile back I posted before-and-after photos of how wind parks are destroying Germany’s natural landscape.
Those photos have now been put into a video. Send the link to political leaders or communities who may be contemplating wind parks in their areas.
Is this really what you want to see every time you look out the window? How does destroying nature save it?
Meanwhile in Germany the “nature-saving” wind parks have done nothing to curb CO2. Last year Germany’s CO2 emissions rose.
FYI: “EEG Todeszone” means Energy Feed-In Act Death Zone
Not my language so I just had to watch — seems nicely done though.
At the end:
“Last year Germany’s CO2 emissions rose.”
This too could be placed on a visual, also costs, job losses, etc.
But, all that might be too many messages and the intended message would be diluted. Trees completely block the sight of our local wind towers a few miles both east and west.
Just thinking about stuff – Sun just came and warmed up things some so I’m going to go feed some animals.
Interestingly, in the eastern USA, the day’s temperature is dropping.
Useless metal monsters.
What does it tell us?
Whirlygigs – constructing these monolithic birdmincers and marching them across the landscape, they stand testament to an economic and indeed socio-political agenda which is and which will cause an economic catastrophe, as we witness….. it is currently (excuse the pun) destroying the German grid with useless surging electricity.
The Communists, the Cultural Marxists, the Trots-Greens-critical theorists and Frankfurt school advocates are; only truly happy when they are in destructive mode – trashing the technological advances Europe has enjoyed during the Englightenment.
Now, whether it be a demographic explosion or, a cataclysmic financial implosion thanks to, the madness of the green agenda and Brussels-Merkl axis – know one thing – none of it will end well for Europe and not at all for: both Germany and the UK.
“…– none of it will end well for Europe and not at all for: both Germany and the UK.” – Edward.#sthash.dmIVApVL.dpuf
Apparently the UK is well on their way, as you suffest.
http://www.scottishenergynews.com/independent-think-tank-claims-renewable-energy-is-the-most-expensive-policy-disaster-in-modern-british-history/
___same material referenced here___
http://www.cps.org.uk/publications/reports/central-planning-with-market-features-how-renewable-subsidies-destroyed-the-uk-electricity-market/
___and here___
http://euanmearns.com/renewable-energy-the-most-expensive-policy-disaster-in-modern-british-history/
They are all commenting on this report, in case someone wants to read it in context.
http://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/150313101309-HowrenewablesubsidiesdestroyedtheUKelectricitymarket1.pdf?utm_source=Energy%2C+Press+%26+Political+Only&utm_campaign=cce402b64a-charity+transparency&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5b6ae8a85-cce402b64a-303680593
Horrible scenery, and I can’t imagine how the folks can put up with the low-frequency rumble the birdmincers generate.
It’s past time that we started to break wind!
Birdmincers? Fossil fuels kill far more birds than do wind turbines:
Number of bird deaths per unit of energy:
https://notrickszone.com/2011/03/24/nuclear-is-the-safest-form-of-energy-opposition-is-a-glaring-denial-of-reality/
Why not watch a video of air pollution from coal plants?
Doesn t make good photos, so it must be less dangerous? Is this really an argument accepted here?
Look at a picture of the coal ash spill:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/us/coal-ash-spill-reveals-transformation-of-north-carolina-agency.html
Or watch a video about the coal ash problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVTutmAmI4
There are only a few dozen coal plants in Germany – not 25,000 150 meters tall on mountains, natural reserves.
Yes. But there are huge mines for dirty brown coal.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Tagebau_Garzweiler_Panorama_2005.jpg
And they get refilled and landscaped after use, you wanted to add but forgot.
“And they get refilled and landscaped after use, you wanted to add but forgot.”
Yes, and the people who used to live in the villages there can then go swimming in the lake.
While others are tortured with windmills.
Is that really how you see the world?
“Yes, and the people who used to live in the villages there can then go swimming in the lake.
While others are tortured with windmills.
Is that really how you see the world?”
Well maybe you should also tell the other readers that despite YOUR crazy worldview, the villagers DON’T get waterboarded and electroshocked but get BRAND NEW HOMES in the area instead.
Again – you don’t deserve to live in an industrialized world. You deserve the lifestyle of a 16th century peasant. How do you think are your beloved electric vehicles built! From SAND? No, you need quite a bit of MINING for all sorts of materials.
To our advantage, people with such a fanatic and totally contradictory worldview as you – who hates mining yet loves electric cars – are few and far between – it takes decades of brainwashing at a university to achieve that level of deludedness.
“And they get refilled and landscaped after use, you wanted to add but forgot.”
You should acquaint yourself with mountaintop removal in Appalachia. And the associated pollution of hollow streams….
I visited this mine a year ago. For sure it is a massive hole in the ground. But to look a little further, in one direction where the mine is going, but one must also look in the other direction, where the mine was working previously. Very interesting to see the reinstatement. Smoothed land with grass and trees, just some meters lower than before mining. It happens just the same in a small scale with sand mining, for construction, not far from where I live. The reinstatement is magnificent.
Also sod, the images you suggest we should look at to show “air pollution” from coal plants, these images are usually showing plumes of water vapour. Are you suggesting this water vapour is a form of air pollution?
Do you mean icky?
Wow, just imagine the absolutely gorgeous lake that could create after they have got the coal out.
If you go to GoogleEarth, find this mine, then head east a bit, you can see the gorgeous valley created by an older mine. Heck it even has some wind turbines in it now. 😉 (although how wind turbines would work in the bottom of hole, I don’t know)
And lets not forget.. these mine power what is left of German industry.
You are such a killjoy, Andy! Don’t you know sod can do the same thing?
He can get schoolchildren involved in the design. Imagine the gorgeous 100m tall trees they will make out of the wind turbine towers. A lot of glue, all his old copies of die tageszeitung, acrylic colors, long ladders and voilà! A genuine German papier-mâché rain forest!
https://coloradowellington.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/german-windpower.gif
Some of the Young Pioneers will die climbing the towers but they’ll be happy to do it for the planet. The rest of them will become children of color and that’s good for diversity.
Here’s the correct link to the children’s work:
https://coloradowellington.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/german-wind-power.gif
And even more mines for iron ore, neodymium, copper and more.
Or do you think windmills are made of butter?
They are spread very widely. 😉
What mines? Why are you spreading capitalist lies? What is your purpose?
Don’tcha know the wind turbines could be made from 100% recycled materials by shock-worker brigades in green factories run by 100% renewable energy if it wasn’t for kulaks, wreckers, saboteurs, spies and other enemies of the people?
“There are only a few dozen coal plants in Germany – not 25,000 150 meters tall on mountains, natural reserves.”
Yet those plants have a far more devasting impact on the environment than any number of wind turbines…..
Horse feathers, David, just horse feathers.
“…those [coal fired electric] plants have a far more devasting impact on the environment than any number of wind turbines….. – David Appell
But are far safer than modern dentistry.
https://notrickszone.com/2016/04/04/video-drives-home-how-germanys-green-energy-transformed-its-idyllic-landscape-into-an-industrial-eyesore/comment-page-1/#comment-1096892
Wake up, sod. Stop being their useful idiot.
http://www.cfact.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ottmar.png
Stop calling him names. If you can refute his arguments, then do so. If not, calling him names is juvenile and not an acceptable response.
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE
“calling him names is juvenile and not an acceptable response.” – David Appell
LOL – Do you mean like this?
https://judithcurry.com/2015/09/03/ins-and-outs-of-the-ivory-tower/#comment-729085
No proof, just David Appell’s word for it. At least I showed why I wrote what I did.
Notice that I didn’t call him and “idiot, but a “useful idiot.” Since sod fits the definition, I didn’t see any problem using the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Note that if he isn’t mistaken in his support for climate con men, then he’s much worse. So I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Oh, and why wasn’t it being immature when you called Pierre “stupid?”
https://notrickszone.com/2016/02/16/impossible-to-ignore-in-2015-alone-massive-250-peer-reviewed-scientific-papers-cast-doubt-on-climate-science/comment-page-1/#comment-1085195
sod 5. April 2016 at 11:23 AM | Permalink | Reply
“Why not watch a video of air pollution from coal plants?
Doesn t make good photos, so it must be less dangerous? Is this really an argument accepted here?”
sod, you have never been to a German coal power plant. But I have. As you surely do not WANT to know, all German brown coal power plants have flue gas scrubbing and desulfurization since about 1995. Which BTW even in the UK not all old power plants have. But the German ones were forced (and partially subsidized) to have it installed.
So you point to some local monopolist in the USA who is probably exempt of all of this because of his good connections to the Democratic party (Duke Energy). Now how AMAZING! Instead of protesting the obvious cronyism and corruption over there you are more than happy to use bad practices on the other side of the planet to demand that Germans shut down their modernized, WAY more efficient, WAY cleaner power plants.
You are truly a moron who doesn’t deserve to live in the luxury provided to you by us, whatever unproductive occupation you busy yourself with.
“So you point to some local monopolist in the USA who is probably exempt of all of this because of his good connections to the Democratic party (Duke Energy). ”
The relevant Governor in this case is a Republican who worked for Duke.
“Following a February 2, 2014, coal-ash spill that was the third-largest of its kind in US history, the US Attorney’s Office opened a grand-jury investigation into Duke Energy and North Carolina regulators in the administration of Governor Pat McCrory. McCrory had been an employee of Duke Energy for 28 years, and critics said his administration had intervened on Duke’s behalf to settle lawsuits over environmental violations.[102][103] The US Attorney subpoenaed 23 officials of the McCrory administration and sought records of “investments, cash or other items of value” passed from Duke to McCrory administration officials.[104] Duke Energy was fined $99,111 for leaks from ponds at two power plants; the amount was part of a deal made by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ secretary, John E. Skvarla III.[105]
In August 2014, McCrory announced that he had previously owned more than $10,000 in Duke Energy stock and that he sold the stock after the coal-ash spill without disclosing the sale in state ethics filings. His lawyer stated that the mistake was based on the lawyer’s misunderstanding of the timeframe covered by the earlier disclosures.[106]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_McCrory#Controversies
He had undisclosed stocks in the company and Duke was fined less than $100000 for the biggest coal ash spill disaster that anyone could imagine.
In an attempted rebuke, sod provides more information on a local monopolist well-connected to state government officials.
That’s like the American Left making excuses for Islam. Every time a new jihadist attack is committed, they invariably attack White terrorists, and the example they usually give is Timothy McVeigh. It’s all they’ve got. “Islam is evil? Yeah, but what about the the two White guys, huh?!”
A few rotten apples in our barrel vs truckloads in theirs. Right sod’s really got us this time.
…they invariably ACCUSE… not “attack” sorry
yonason, is all of Islam responsible for the actions of a few terrorists?
Is all of Christianity responsible for the terrorists McVeigh and Nichols?
“Why not watch a video of air pollution from coal plants?”
You mean backlit steam?
“You mean backlit steam?”
No. i am talking about toxic stuff, like mercury.
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2016-01/schwermetall-quecksilber-ausstoss-kohlekraftwerke
It is really great, that German coal plants have had some lousy scrubbers added under intense pressure last century.
It is also just wonderful that those who ruin the landscape to dig for coal are later allowed to flood the land and then have to pay for 10 meters of beach and a kiosk as compensation for the dirty money they earned with the coal on other peoples land.
Where is your video ? No?
That is what you said we should look at.
Did you see the new idea that could reduce the CO2 from coal power by 50%?
“It is also just wonderful that those who ruin the landscape to dig for coal are later allowed to flood the land”
I already know that you Greens hate Red Milans; that’s why you Greens poison them so you can build your wind turbines in Red Milan free nature reserves; but now you hate fish as well? What would you prefer? Endless acres of corn plantations that can be turned into subsidized Bioethanol?
Greens – the total industrializers of nature. Weird how that turned out. You really HATE biodiversity right?
sod, why do you use a computer? I mean really. You hate all mining. You should be living in a wooden shack with no electricity and no metal objects except what you can forge from found meteorites. I guess you’d have a rotten old time shearing your sheep, weaving pullovers. And it’s possible! Siberia is VAST. So is Canada! Russia as well as Canada would probably take you if you ask politely and promise to disappear in the woods. Just forget about that useless Tesla you want to drive, remember, it depends on mining galore. And runs on nuclear power. Or coal power. Whichever is worse in your sect.
THink about it. All your problems solved with one simple decision. Live the high life of a mostly metal-free standard of living! Solar cells? Well I see problems there. The silicon okay, but the inverter? The cables? Imagine the horrors of copper mining, nah, that’s right out.
sod uses a computer because they are necessary for modern life. What isn’t necessary is energy generation via coal — there are many better options.
“sod uses a computer because they are necessary for modern life.”
David, I know you are pig-headed but not this dense. You know it was about sod’s hypocrisy and hate of mining. You also know that computer manufacturing are impossible without it.
Was this just one of your sloppy hit-and-run comments or were you trying to obfuscate? Or was it both?
David Appell 8. April 2016 at 7:18 AM | Permalink
“sod uses a computer because they are necessary for modern life. ”
sod doesn’t want a modern life – he hates mining. He wants a life without metal objects. Pre-bronce-age? But, he can do early agriculture using a stick as a plough.
“…i am talking about toxic stuff, like mercury.” – sod
This is from a 2010 study in Europe:
http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/mercury-in-cfl/en/mercury-cfl/l-3/3-emissions-risk-environment.htm
So, what was that you were saying about coal emissions, again?
@AndyG55
Backlit AND/OR Photoshopped
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2012/05/turning-water-vapor-into-pollution.html?doing_wp_cron=1460046404.6563920974731445312500
The sheer number of those bird-mincers makes it very obvious what enormous amounts of taxpayers’ money has gone to subsidise them. Plus the further enormous amounts which will be needed once their owners have been bankrupted or have disappeared leaving taxpayers to foot the bill for their removal. What a scandal!
Mike: Fossil fuels kill far more birds than do wind turbines:
Number of bird deaths per unit of energy:
https://notrickszone.com/2011/03/24/nuclear-is-the-safest-form-of-energy-opposition-is-a-glaring-denial-of-reality/
“Mike: Fossil fuels kill far more birds than do wind turbines:”
Utter BS. !
And you link to a fabricated graph from a far-left anti-everything group, which is about human deaths.
Its beyond STUPID even for you. !
Pierre wrote:
“Awhile back I posted before-and-after photos of how wind parks are destroying Germany’s natural landscape.”
Those were the faked pictures, right?
http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2015/06/faking-before-and-after-pictures-of.html
No, Mr. Appell, they were not faked. You are accusing Pierre of lying. It is well known that people instinctively accuse others of their own sins. Liars accuse others of lying because they assume that since they lie, others also lie. What does your accusing make you, Mr. Appell?
In addition, Mr. Appell, everyone commenting here has seen a wind subsidy farm. They are ugly, ugly, ugly so no embellishment is necessary.
I should be ashamed of myself. I’m feeding the troll. I’ll have to do better.
Yes, these sprawling wind
farmspower plants are hideous but sod and other committed schoolchildren could do something about it.https://coloradowellington.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/german-wind-power.gif
And don’t feel too bad about the feeding. We are all sinners.