A potential wind turbine installation on the island of Crete may be poised to drive an endangered raptor population to extinction.
Recent studies have found the favored “renewable” energies – wind and solar – are not effective, even counteractive, when it comes to reducing emissions from fossil fuels.
Solar PV installation, for example, results in a net loss of energy, meaning that the net effect of solar energy use is ultimately more dependence on fossil fuels.
Image Source: Ferroni and Hopkirk, 2016
Due especially to its intermittent energy generation, the installation of wind turbines also necessitates eventual growth in fossil fuel energies to back them up (due especially to the frequent occasions when the wind is not blowing).
Image Source: Marques et al., 2018
Even worse, the installation of wind turbines have been well documented to destroy wildlife habitats (Marques et al., 2019, Millon et al., 2018, Lange et al., 2018, Barré et al., 2018). Frequent soaring species collisions may ultimately lead to widespread extinctions (Naylor, 2018 , Watson et al., 2018, Vasilakis et al., 2017 ) in the coming decades.
Roughly 25% of North American bats are now classified at risk for extinction (Hammerson et al, 2017) in large part due to the explosion of wind turbines across the landscape.
If the expansion of wind turbines continues at its current pace, the hoary bat population is projected to be reduced by 90% (Frick et al., 2017) within the next 50 years.
In a new paper (Xirouchakis et al., 2019), scientists detail the austere short-term mortality risks wind turbines pose upon an endangered griffon vulture on the island of Crete.
Considering the unreliability and counteractive effectiveness of wind turbine use in mitigating fossil fuel dependency, one needs to ask why we are willing to risk the extirpation of rare raptor species for the purpose of expanding “renewable” energies that increasingly seem to do more harm than good.
It’s enough to make you wonder whether Greens (as opposed to genuine environmentalists) really do give a **** about nature or whether they just use it as a battering ram to further their dreams of global Communism.
There are lots of nice pictures of vultures on the internet. Videos too. Who wants them around for real, eating your dead dog?
If there were no dead dogs, or any other dead things, the vultures would leave and find a reliable source of food.
If they are gone, and there are dead things, then the place gets smelly.
Besides vultures are fun to watch in the air.
In Washington State we have Turkey Vultures.
Video: Cathartes aura
Cue head in sand response from Turbine fans.
Well, 84 vultures per year, that means they’re gone in about 12 years from now. Which is about the same time we have before the climate crises takes us all down the drain, if we don’t reduce emissions drastically, also by building wind power. So what do we choose? Vultures or life?
“Duuhh!
Wind power is the less efficient way to reduce emissions and that has been well documented for years now. Denmark is the best example, since it operates 17 big coal & gas power plants (5.426MW) and 1149 small local plants (3.368MW), to guarantee its basic load, while it exports the stochastic and so useless wind power to Norway, Sweden and Germany, via the Nord Pool System. It also exports wind turbines to fools.
Wind energy is a cash machine for producers and a nightmare for all of us. If Denmark will cease operations in these 17+1149 power plants, then it will be the country without electricity.
Not without electricity, only the lights would go on and off at excitingly different times of day and night. A stable grid is so boring.
So lets go ahead and destroy the natural world with these noisy, industrial monstrosities. It is completely illogical that we are littering the countryside with these industrial, only the demented politically left green idiots could ever think that these follies are an answer for anything.
They are nothing but monuments to human stupidity!
A bit off-road, but still great news.
Speaking of “endangered species.”
Honest scientist are all at risk. But here’s one who’s just been vindicated. Dr. Ridd has won his case.
http://climatescience.blogspot.com/2019/04/australian-professor-wins-court-case.html
Henning Neilson. Please could you explain your comment? Emissions of what?
Carbon dioxide or water vapour? How do you know it will take exactly 12 years for something to happen to take us all down what tube? Would we have time to build all the windmills before this point and once we build them would the climate then cease to do something as if we had flicked a switch? I would really like to know.
So many people use jargon and demonstrate in the streets but do not define what they mean by the government ” Taking Action” They have a good time disrupting , though. as they did when waving rainbow flags or wearing pink hats.
They have all gone on so long, though and convinced no one.
Oh dear, Emberson. Guess I’ve been in the skeptic business too long. Because it seems very obvious to me that my comment was sarcasm.
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