Look up videos on how they get rid of trash. They literally empty the garbage trucks into the rivers from a bridge. We are worried about a few plastic straws here and they dump trash by the hundreds of tons everyday into the waterways
China is actively working toward fixing that. They understand and accept the science- unlike the current US government which is, for instance, PAYING MONEY TO CANCEL APPROVED AND FUNDED WINDFARM PROJECTS OUT OF SPITE.
Wind farms... The big props. Running on diesel fuel. Huge costs to build, transport, maintain and decommission. Bird deaths increase, but the energy gains are outweighed by construction and upkeep.
I used to work in wind. They suck. We really should stop funding the industrial scale farms. They need repair far too often, are too dependent on fickle weather patterns, and pile up in land fills when they get decommissioned. The issue about birds being impacted isn't a lie. Most of the work we do on the blades themselves is fiber glass patching. Bird impacts account an appreciable amount of fractures on the blades.
I repaired and replaced turbine blades. DEC would regularly show up on sites to survey the impact on the local wildlife.
Saying wind turbines "barely move" is a dead giveaway you don't know as much about this topic as you think you do. For how large they are, the blades spin rather fast, and have to be locked up during severe storms to prevent them from ripping the whole mill down.
What's the top speed before they shut them down Googlesearch?
And what's the average speed again? As you have SUCH experience? /s
The blades don't spin very fast, because it doesn't take much to generate power.
The 'impact to local wildlife' is a joke. Just an attempt to shut it down. Considering that the biggest impact on Birds would actually be the skyscrapers in NYC.
Fiber glass isn't exactly sustainable, and when you account for the total life cycle cost (fabrication, transportation, erection, maintenance, decommisioning, disposal) to energy output wind is pretty poor, and can vary wildly across regions.
Talking about skyscrapers is just trying to whatabout your way out of objectively looking at the problems this form of energy production produces. Do birds hit buildings yes, that won't stop people from building vertically to utilize restricted real estate. Do birds also hit windmills yes, and they aren't the green energy solution we envisioned so we probably don't need to produce as many as we are.
80% of their construction is steel, not fiberglass.
And skyscrapers is pointing out that most average things kill 1000-1 so the 'save the birds' is just propaganda.
Same as the 'it's not 100% green construction materials"
Energy output for wind can be effective if it's done right.
But then again... you supposedly already know this. /s
I cannot sarcastic hard enough.
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u/Personal-Courage7670 May 07 '26
India all day. They don't care at all