Wind Energy & the Environment
Wind energy works, is increasingly cost-effective, has a net positive environmental impact, and is compatible with most existing land uses. The links below touch on the topic of wind’s environmental benefits and impacts.
Movie Madness: New Additions to Cultural Icons–Wallpaper, Quilts, and More
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A few decades ago a theme–or meme in today’s parlance–among wind energy aficionados was movies or TV shows that included scenes of wind turbines. We dubbed the theme Movie Madness.
Raptor Center study is a step toward avoiding wind turbine deaths
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Jim Williams
Researchers, including Dr. Julia Ponder, executive director of the Raptor Center, want to learn what frequencies and levels of sound can be heard by the birds, and their reactions to them.
ROBERT PRICE: Why wind energy is a multi-faceted disaster, according to Trump
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Robert Price
America’s foremost scholar on the power-generating prowess of wind turbines has been challenged by a lesser expert from Bakersfield. That foremost scholar, according to President Trump, is President Trump. The dissenting expert is Paul Gipe, author of “Wind Energy for the Rest of Us: A Comprehensive Guide to Wind Power and How to Use It,” a 1,100-page compendium of all things windy.
Musselroe Wind Farm to deploy bird protecting radar in Australian first trial
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Michael Mazengarb
Tasmania’s Musselroe Wind Farm will undertake an Australian first trial of new radar technology that the operators hope will help reduce instances of collisions with wedge-tailed eagles.
Ireland fined €5m plus daily penalty of €15,000 over landslides at Galway wind farm
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THE EU’S COURT of Justice has fined the State €5m over its failure to comply with EU legislation that might have prevented landslides linked to the construction of a wind farm in the west of Ireland in 2003.
The Big Ban of Wind Energy
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Karl-friedrich Lenz
One of the reasons is the failed policy of leaving the working feed-in tariff in favor of an experiment with auctions. Said experiment has failed in a spectacular way. As a part of my job I follow some of the European and German developments of legislation. I think this particular change deserves the title of “WORST LAW EVER”. It has resulted in a complete destruction of any credible path to achieving the German climate goals.
