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There are a number of ways to extract energy from moving water without killing fish. And the roads alongside the windmill farms kill more raptors than do the farms. But you did not give a didley about the raptors until you could make them a political issue against clean and cheap energy. Just another red herring to try to retain the obscene profits of the huge energy corporations.
And your solution to the amount of raptors killed on our highways is?By the way.. ANYONE that kills eagles producing energy (or raptors or owls) should be taken to court and fined.. Just like the government is CURRENTLY doing to the oil/fossil folks. YOUR problem ORocks --- is instead of prosecuting wind farms, that same Damn Govt is issuing them kill licensecs and sending folks out in uniform to cover up the dead bodies.. MASSIVE hypocrits...
Hypocracy is bemoaning some oil-covered birds while castigating an entire industry to the point of advocating it's total annihilation... and then blithely condoning a massive loss of avian life as "acceptable collateral" cost for the good of the "green" movement.You want to shut down the wind farms, are you also going to shut down the Interstates? How about all the tall buildings? Going to advocate tearing them down? Flat, you are a hypocrite.
And your solution to the amount of raptors killed on our highways is?By the way.. ANYONE that kills eagles producing energy (or raptors or owls) should be taken to court and fined.. Just like the government is CURRENTLY doing to the oil/fossil folks. YOUR problem ORocks --- is instead of prosecuting wind farms, that same Damn Govt is issuing them kill licensecs and sending folks out in uniform to cover up the dead bodies.. MASSIVE hypocrits...
Well, I am not wasting money on them. I don't own any, nor am I buying any. However, I do buy electricity that they produce. As does almost everybody in the US now. Because they are becoming an increasingly important component of our grid. Just as is solar. And the cost of wind is presently much lower than even coal without the neccessary cleaning systems. And solar will be much lower than dirty coal before President Obama leaves office.And your solution to the amount of raptors killed on our highways is?By the way.. ANYONE that kills eagles producing energy (or raptors or owls) should be taken to court and fined.. Just like the government is CURRENTLY doing to the oil/fossil folks. YOUR problem ORocks --- is instead of prosecuting wind farms, that same Damn Govt is issuing them kill licensecs and sending folks out in uniform to cover up the dead bodies.. MASSIVE hypocrits...
That's easy OR -- For every hiway or wind farm you build -- you deny them viable habitat. Simply require a set-aside of BETTER or equiv. habitat everytime you construct a human made kill zone..
And require that cars/trucks be painted yellow with black stripes so that raptors can see them better. (ironic grin)
I don't want to shut down the windfarms. I want you to stop wasting my money on them and in the meanwhile making power more expensive and scarce.
The plan is to encase the city's lagoon in a horseshoe-shaped causeway that will serve as a giant tidal generator. The four-year project is massive, but if it is approved, it would create a long-term reliable source of clean energy. The 9.5 kilometer horseshoe would literally ring the harbor of Swansea. Once in place, the huge tides on the English coast will be spinning turbines and creating huge amounts of energy. "We open the gates in the tidal lagoon, let the water through the turbines, and we generate electricity. It's five Olympic swimming pools worth of electricity every second, and that generates enough electricity for 155,000 homes per year," Mark Shorrock, chief executive of Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon Power, said.
The core of the project is this massive generator that is equipped with more than 20, six-meter-high turbines that spin when the tide goes in and the tide goes out, four times a day. That is energy the designers say residents can count on, unlike wind and solar which can be weather dependent. "So that's the biggest difference between tidal power and, say, wind and solar power, is that the wind is intermittent and you get the sun during the day," Shorrock said. "With the tides, you always have certain electricity at certain times of the day and then that's staggered at shifts by 40 minutes every day."
The causeway will be created by slowly building it up with giant sandbags. On top of that, it will provide a 9-kilometer causeway for running, biking and sightseeing that proponents say will last hundreds of years. "Once we build the breakwater wall, it's going to be there for the next 120 years. When we put the turbines in there, they're there for the next 120 years," Shorrock said. "So what's quite interesting about this piece of infrastructure is it's inter-generational. It'll last for the next five generations, producing power throughout its lifetime, working with the rhythm of the tide."
The project will cost an estimated 1.6 billion dollars, and take four years to build. But it will go a long way to replace aging nuclear plants and help the United Kingdom meet its clean energy goals.
Tidal Energy Taking Hold In England