Sunday, February 26, 2012
Waging Lawfare
Liberal groups have used suspect studies to stop development, that is, building structures that enhance human civilization, to protect little know, tiny animals like the snail darter, delta smelt, Preble's jumping mouse, arroyo toad and the future king, the dunes sagebrush lizard. Who really cares about those? There are animals we love and eagles are high up on that list.
I hate wind generators. They are expensive, completely useless* blights on the land. And they chop up birds and kill bats. They even chop up golden eagles--federally protected golden eagles. I used to fantasize (in a purely hypothetical way) about shooting wind generators with .50 BMG armor piercing, incendiary rounds. Naah, let's put them out of business soon by using the Endangered Species Act about animals we actually care about, and which are indeed being killed.
Even better would be not to continue to subsidize (actually subsidize, not merely allow them to take real costs of production out of the bottom line for taxes) wind generators. I get the feeling that Congress has not continued the subsidy and may not continue it before it lapses at the end of the year, but there is precious little on the subject even on the web. Loss of subsidy would end new construction and probably stop maintenance and the big useless eyesores would soon grind to a bird safe halt.
I hate wind generators. They are expensive, completely useless* blights on the land. And they chop up birds and kill bats. They even chop up golden eagles--federally protected golden eagles. I used to fantasize (in a purely hypothetical way) about shooting wind generators with .50 BMG armor piercing, incendiary rounds. Naah, let's put them out of business soon by using the Endangered Species Act about animals we actually care about, and which are indeed being killed.
Even better would be not to continue to subsidize (actually subsidize, not merely allow them to take real costs of production out of the bottom line for taxes) wind generators. I get the feeling that Congress has not continued the subsidy and may not continue it before it lapses at the end of the year, but there is precious little on the subject even on the web. Loss of subsidy would end new construction and probably stop maintenance and the big useless eyesores would soon grind to a bird safe halt.
*As with any intermittent energy source, the real electrical power producers, which are not nimble, produce power at the base rate and above as if there were no intermittent producers. That is, the intermittent sources don't reduce the real power production by a single watt, or amp? whatever. They are merely unsightly, horrible, very expensive trinkets to our erstwhile mistaken belief in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. Oh, and our caring for the natural world, of course. Except for the dead birds and bats.
Labels: Endangered Species, No Energy Economy; Wind Generators
Monday, November 21, 2011
Why I'm Anti-Wind Generator
The hidden ecological costs of photovoltaic panels are in their manufacture, and once they give up the ghost after 20 to 25 years in the sun, in disposing of them. They don't actively during their useful life harm the wildlife. Wind Generators, on the other hand, while providing useless, intermittent power at a very high price in an effort to solve a supposed existential crisis that is not even a problem, chop up birds and implode bats. Any real ecologist would work to shut down all the wind generators right now. Although I don't advocate actually doing it, I think, in theory, a single, well placed, armor piercing incendiary .50 BMG round per unit would do the World a lot of good.
With the president and many state legislatures advocating wasting tons of taxpayer and electric bill payer money putting up more of these useless eyesores, I had despaired for the future of our endangered birds and bats. But help may be on the horizon, or so reports Don Suber here.
Music to my ears:
...in the last 30 years, the United States has had 14,000 wind turbines abandoned. Apparently, once the subsidies and the wind run out, these 20-story high Cuisinarts are de-bladed and retired.
So maybe we won't have to go all Monkey Wrench gang on the horrible things. Just cut the wasteful spending of government subsidies to them and the problem goes away. Ha. Two birds with one stone.
As the Democrats say, we can't wait.
Labels: No Energy Economy; Wind Generators
