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    Wind Power is 'Neither Clean Nor Green'


    Journo: Wind Power is 'Neither Clean Nor Green'
    By Amber Randall Published on May 12, 2017
    https://stream.org/journo-wind-power...ean-nor-green/

    Wind energy isn't nearly as environmentally friendly as most green groups claim, journalist Matt Ridley wrote in The Spectator Friday.

    Ridley notes that wind turbines generate far less energy than environmentalists like to claim.

    "You may have got the impression from announcements like that, and from the obligatory pictures of wind turbines in any BBC story or airport advert about energy, that wind power is making a big contribution to world energy today," Ridley wrote. "You would be wrong. Its contribution is still, after decades — nay centuries — of development, trivial to the point of irrelevance."

    Ridley points out that even when combined wind and photovoltaic solar are supplying less than 1 percent of global energy demand....



    ..."Do not take refuge in the idea that wind turbines could become more efficient," Ridley wrote. "There is a limit to how much energy you can extract from a moving fluid, the Betz limit, and wind turbines are already close to it ... As machines, wind turbines are pretty good already; the problem is the wind resource itself, and we cannot change that."

    Ridley notes that the environmental impact of wind turbines is also far greater than most environmentalists claim, both during manufacturing and operations.

    Turbines themselves are also made of non-renewable resources that have to be dug out of the ground and use a lot of land and water, leading to habitat destruction. Additionally, hazardous materials like sulfuric acid and toxic phosphine gas factor in heavily in solar panel manufacturing. Modern wind turbines are also highly dependent on rare earth minerals mined primarily from countries with poor environmental records, like China.

    "[It] is not obvious that the production of wind turbines and solar cells is sustainable, that the materials have been sourced in a sustainable way, or that the industries are capable of recycling the technology in the future," Dr. Simon Davidsson, the earth scientist who authored a study on the environmental impacts of green energy, said in a press statement. "Renewable energy technology can lead to reduced emission of greenhouse gases, but for a complete analysis we need to make sure the whole production chain is sustainable."

    Davidsson notes that recycling the materials used to create wind turbines is extremely difficult and that turbines have short operational lifespans.

    Wind turbines can also be an environmental hazard to birds and bats....


    ...In the last five years, America's wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the British Petroleum Gulf of Mexico oil spill did. ...



    ...Trying to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by using wind power often does more harm to the environment than good. Storing green energy from wind in batteries for later use actually increases both energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a study by the University of Texas Energy Institute. Researchers concluded that homes that used battery storage ended up consuming between 8 percent and 14 percent more electricity than homes that didn't.

    Some environmental groups already oppose solar and wind power due to other environmental impacts....


    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    There are a lot of these turbines in Iowa. There are a lot of windy people in Norway too.

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    Yeah, we have enormous endurance...

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    Imagine if you could harness the gaseous outrage of the left there would be enough energy to power the world for 500 years

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