Breaking News! Large air spill at wind farm!

[decay]

Why do you hate wind power, Dakota?

[davester]

This is truly a massive spill. I just looked outside and it has spread all the way to the west coast.

[$tevie]

[OWC Jamie]

[Mac1337]

decay wrote:
Why do you hate wind power, Dakota?

I don't. I just want to people like you to acknowledge that wind and solar, in our and our childrens lifetimes, will barely make a dent in fossil and nuclear sources. So stop bashing oil and coal. There is no credible substitute. Also, every alternative energy source, be it solar, ethanol or wind, have huge environmental impacts of their own. Acknowledge that and we may have a conversation.

[decay]

So a massive oil spill can't be addressed with a little humor?

You're a big whiny crybaby, Dakota. Grow up.

[decay]

And show me the "huge environmental impacts" that wind power has.

Compare it to the oil spills we've seen with Exxon Valdez and now this.

[mattkime]

>>I don't. I just want to people like you to acknowledge that wind and solar, in our and our childrens lifetimes, will barely make a dent in fossil and nuclear sources. So stop bashing oil and coal. There is no credible substitute. Also, every alternative energy source, be it solar, ethanol or wind, have huge environmental impacts of their own. Acknowledge that and we may have a conversation.

Acknowledge my premonitions of the future and then we may speak.

[Mac1337]

When a single pipeline was about to be laid down in Alaska, all the usual suspects were shedding tears for the mating disruption of the Caribou (nothing happened, by the way). Now, hundreds of thousands of square miles of desert is being carpeted by solar panels. Where are the environmental impact studies?Who knows what wind mills will do? May be nothing but I want to see the reports. Since I know I won't see one here, let me show you what I found,

Two years ago, PPM commissioned a study to learn how many bats could be affected by its proposed wind farm. Biologists hung nets for two nights in 10 locations and caught 138 bats. Cale calculates that if 24 nets -- that's one for each turbine -- were left up through the 14 combined weeks of seasonal bat migration, more than 16,000 bats would be caught. Each net covered an area of about 1,000 square feet. That compares to 66,000 square feet carved out by a turbine's rotating blades. "It's going to be a slaughterhouse," Cale said.

[August West]

Acknowledge that and we may have a conversation.

I vote for refusal to acknowledge and all its attendant consequences.