Health Sec. RFK Jr.: Wind farms ‘wiping out the whale population’ and hurting fisheries
"During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about offshore wind farms."
"During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about offshore wind farms."
CFACT's Conservation Country report put saving Lava Ridge on the radar.
They want to pave the prairies with solar panels, line the ridges with wind towers, then ship the juice to faraway cities.
"Research indicates pile-driving noise is approximately 3.2 times more harmful to whales than sonar surveys, dramatically increasing risks of permanent auditory injuries and fatalities."
Every on-land wind project requires a permit to kill eagles from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
Making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.
Pushing up wind and solar in time to qualify for subsidies.
Unable to deliver the continuous flow of power demanded by the 21st century’s Industrial Revolution, green energy’s best days appear to be behind it.
Craig Rucker on Ladies With Another View on the problems with wind turbines.
The fly in the floating wind ointment is the "floater."
Empire is about to start driving the enormous steel monopiles that hold the turbine towers, but a new wrinkle has hit the fan.
Given that the blackout occurred on a sunny day and that hydro doesn’t fluctuate with weather, any attribution leaves wind as the only likely contributing culprit.
“It appears that Dominion has unwisely spent money on alternative energy sources that produce expensive electricity. Would it not be better for Virginia and other coal producing states like Wyoming and West Virginia to invest in more clean coal generation plants?”
"It was very predictable, as we've been saying, solar and wind are variable. The grid has to have a 50 hertz, over in Europe it's 60 hertz here in America, and just going as tad below that at any point can cause massive blackouts. That's exactly what happened."
About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality.