Posts Tagged ‘endangered species’

We like John’s analysis of windpower at windpowerfacts.info
Wind Power Facts: Tooklit of Information, by John Droz, Jr an physicist and environmental activist:

A critical fact to understand is that just because a power source is an alternative, or a renewable, does NOT automatically mean that it is better than any conventional or fossil fuel source!
In other words, electrical energy alternatives/renewables should not be given a free pass on common sense scrutiny, and the use of scientific methodology, in objectively evaluating their merits.

Whether an alternative/renewable is acceptable is a highly technical matter that should be decided on the basis of a comprehensive, independent, objective and transparent evaluation of three key conditions:
a) its technical performance,
b) the economics of the power produced, and
c) its FULL environmental impact.

All independent evidence to date indicates that industrial wind power fails on all three of these critical counts.

Some recent articles about windfarms focus on the threat to wildlife.

Posted June 6, 2011 at LosAngeles Times website
Wind power turbines in Altamont Pass threaten protected birds
Scores of golden eagles have been killed after striking the thousands of wind turbines in the Bay Area, raising questions about California’s move toward alternative power.

Posted August 19, 2011 at Reason.com, Get Ready for the Green Civil War

as the enviro agenda gets implemented, the enviro wars are going to become more—not less—intense, except that instead of fighting the rest of us, they’ll be fighting each other.

Posted October 14, 2011 at The Global Warming Policy Foundation, UK News site. Matt Ridley: Making Wind Farms Obsolete
“Here’s an article I wrote for this week’s Spectator about UK energy policy. Wind must give way to gas before it ruins us all, and our landscapes.” “To persist with a policy of pursuing subsidized renewable energy in the midst of a terrible recession, at a time when vast reserves of cheap low-carbon gas have suddenly become available is so perverse it borders on the insane. Nothing but bureaucratic inertia and vested interest can explain it.”

Posted November 25, 2011 at Engineering News online
Wind power truly in the realm of mysticism

Let me state categorically that, as a physicist, I am in favour of wind power that is genuinely economically viable. The problem is that large-scale wind power fed into a national grid is just not viable – either economically or practically – from an engineering stand point.

Posted December 10, 2011 at The Wall Street Journal
Wildlife Slows Wind Power: New U.S. Rules to Protect Bats and Birds Create Uncertainty in Growing Industry

Over the last few month we found these articles which you may find interesting.

posted August 2, 2011 at International Business Times
Polar Bear Population Higher than in 20th Century: Is Something Fishy about Extinction Fears?

Posted August 11, 2011 at Humanevents.com
Global Warming Link to Drowned Polar Bears Melts Under Searing Fed Probe

Date of article unknown, posted at ILoveCarbonDioxide.com
Of Arctic Ice and Polar Bears
By Thomas Fuller, SF Environmental Policy Examine
Fuller says population patterns do not show a temperature-linked decline

posted November 11, 2011 at Nunatsiaq Online
Inuit need input into national polar bear management plan
Canada working with Inuits regarding a national management plan for polar bears.

Posted November 12, 2011 on Roger Helmer Mep Blog
Polar Bears: Reports of their demise have been greatly exaggerated