Comments on: Italian Wind Farms, Golden Eagle Under Threat

By: krissy

krissy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:25:06 +0000

That worries me because Texas has the most windpower and the largest number of bird species. I think wind farms are pretty icky and we should shift to localized energy production. You can have solar, a small wind turbine like in the olden days, biodiesel or bio gas digesters. Large industrial power facilities are the problem. I bet we’ll be hearing about those large solar panels in the desert real soon. They create large scale problems and require that much more energy just to get it to the consumer.

By: Gerard Vaughan

Gerard Vaughan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:43:39 +0000

Yes, “Windfarming” CAN work, but to do so it needs to be about 40 times (not twice) as effective as current “technology” which returns only a SMALL fraction of One percent off its cost – i.e. the energy required to replace it – each year.
You may be aware that I have been trying not to rant, too ravingly, about this for some years now. Maybe the message is getting through at last. A Vestas factory is closing, and the workforce are “sitting-in” I read.
According to some, it seems that getting energy from the wind is simple once you have made the huge decision “Shall we have it Vertical or Horizontal”.
The rest they appear to think is just “une fait accomplie”. It isn’t !
If you email me an address I can send my “wind info” to which I refered, with photo of Turbine-Alternator device – TAD ? – which shows a return of around 5% p.a. and is therefore capable of providing the energy to replace it long before it needs to be rerplaced. Growth is therefore possible from WIND energy – not other sources !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As you will see it presents absolutely no threat to any wildlife save that bent on self-destruction.
(Like mankind ?)
Kind regards
G. bert Vaughan

By: offset

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