Amy22's Comments
Such a shame that everyone has been blinded by the fallacy of "green" energy. It's supposed to benefit the entire environment, not just select bits and pieces. Perhaps supporters should take a jaunt to some of the larger industrial windfarms and take a look at all the dead birds and bats. And no, they don't "learn" to avoid them. Migration isn't taught. It's inborn.
There was a great article in Scientific American that every support of wind farms should read. If I remember correctly 400 bats were killed during their migration period. Another great article was in Discovery News that actually studied how these bats were dying. And they were not in collisions. These turbines essentially blow bats up from the inside out. Attractive, huh?
Perhaps people need to turn down their A/C units, turn off the plasma, and consume LESS - rather than demand more.
By the way. Turbines are probably one of the least reliable form of energy out there. You can't predict when the wind is going to blow, and energy is largely reliant on increasing load when they know demand will be higher. Can't really do that with wind.
But let's keep decimating sensitive environments, killing birds and bats, and wounding landscapes and call it "green" energy. What a joke.
There was a great article in Scientific American that every support of wind farms should read. If I remember correctly 400 bats were killed during their migration period. Another great article was in Discovery News that actually studied how these bats were dying. And they were not in collisions. These turbines essentially blow bats up from the inside out. Attractive, huh?
Perhaps people need to turn down their A/C units, turn off the plasma, and consume LESS - rather than demand more.
By the way. Turbines are probably one of the least reliable form of energy out there. You can't predict when the wind is going to blow, and energy is largely reliant on increasing load when they know demand will be higher. Can't really do that with wind.
But let's keep decimating sensitive environments, killing birds and bats, and wounding landscapes and call it "green" energy. What a joke.
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I got paddled in school. You know what I had at home? TWO loving parents. We were relatively well off, I wasn't abused, but I still acted up. Because I liked it. Got paddled once - my parents found out about it and I got spanked when I got home. Know what? I never acted up to that extent, either. And guess what else (which is going to come as a shock to all you pussies out there) - I was never arrested, never did drugs, never had a kid out of wedlock AND, I have a job that most people would KILL for.
Here's a comparative study for you. I have a cousin with two kids that doesn't believe in spanking, and a cousin with three kids that does. No-spanking cousin has the most ILL BEHAVED KIDS on the face of the planet. I went to a family function this weekend and was MORTIFIED at the behavior of the non-spanked kids. The spanked kids actually commented to the adults how "only bad boys act like that". The spanked kids knew how to act in public and were able to recognize that their own cousins were acting like a bunch of monkeys.
This all goes back to the pussification of the world. Nobody can fail, nobody can get their feelings hurt, nobody can pay for their actions, and nobody ever deals with consequences. That's cool though. Because my kids will be running fortune 500 companies while YOUR kids are in "indie" bands milking off mom and dad until they're 36.