The IPA’s new database shows 150 instances of community opposition to alt-energy projects in Australia. Plus, global solar rejections hit a record, and yes, wind turbines kill birds, lots of them.
A skyscraper is in most cases an industrial miracle that allows us to create massive living space & commerce on a tiny patch of irreplaceable Earth. A wind turbine is a needless waste of Earth, resources & wildlife that is grossly inferior to literally every other alternative.
I guess I'm not sure how many eagles are worth sacrificing per skyscraper. But there isn't one eagle worth losing for all the turbine forests ever built. Not. One.
Rainforest Reserves Australia has an interactive map showing the location, footprint and vital statistics of a thousand wind, solar and related projects. Thanks to Anne Smith, Steve Nowakowski (photographer and cartographer ) and helpers
Ok Robert, this project of yours raises questions. Does rejection mean final rejection or just a temporary setback and not a good kill. Also, these are the wins. How about a tally of the losses. Are we winning or losing; there's been an awful lot of wind and solar put up over the past ten years, sadly. And the predictions are that a lot more is going up; some insane number of new energy build is this stuff according to official figures. Any way to see if what you're measuring is moving that needle?
Outside of solar (excluding that abomination that is wind power), meeting energy growth demands is going to come smack up against the lead times for turbines. You can pursue SMR's, Combined-cycle NG, etc., etc., but you still need turbines in the mix and that sounds like a really difficult obstacle to overcome in terms of lead times. Solar over parking lots and roofs... closer to the source perhaps but you don't need a turbine for those systems.
That's a fair point. But don't forget Otto cycle engines. Yes, gas turbines are needed. But there are other ways of making electricity from nat gas. I'll be writing about this soon.
Thank you Mr Bryce. A brief thought experiment: dead birds including raptors are found around nuclear plants in similar number - would "environmentalists" be looking the other way?
Big River, You are at your best when you are balanced and yet irasible. Hence: Substack.
A skyscraper is in most cases an industrial miracle that allows us to create massive living space & commerce on a tiny patch of irreplaceable Earth. A wind turbine is a needless waste of Earth, resources & wildlife that is grossly inferior to literally every other alternative.
I guess I'm not sure how many eagles are worth sacrificing per skyscraper. But there isn't one eagle worth losing for all the turbine forests ever built. Not. One.
Rainforest Reserves Australia has an interactive map showing the location, footprint and vital statistics of a thousand wind, solar and related projects. Thanks to Anne Smith, Steve Nowakowski (photographer and cartographer ) and helpers
https://www.rainforestreserves.org.au/renewablestruthmap
Contact info@rainforestreserves.org.au
Bill Stinson, a founding member of The Energy Realists of Australia, is in touch with over 250 community action groups.
Robert, are you familiar with IdentiFlight? Wonder if it's as effective as claimed.
https://www.identiflight.com/#gsc.tab=0
Ok Robert, this project of yours raises questions. Does rejection mean final rejection or just a temporary setback and not a good kill. Also, these are the wins. How about a tally of the losses. Are we winning or losing; there's been an awful lot of wind and solar put up over the past ten years, sadly. And the predictions are that a lot more is going up; some insane number of new energy build is this stuff according to official figures. Any way to see if what you're measuring is moving that needle?
Outside of solar (excluding that abomination that is wind power), meeting energy growth demands is going to come smack up against the lead times for turbines. You can pursue SMR's, Combined-cycle NG, etc., etc., but you still need turbines in the mix and that sounds like a really difficult obstacle to overcome in terms of lead times. Solar over parking lots and roofs... closer to the source perhaps but you don't need a turbine for those systems.
That's a fair point. But don't forget Otto cycle engines. Yes, gas turbines are needed. But there are other ways of making electricity from nat gas. I'll be writing about this soon.
Seemingly simple facts, yet the complexity of the green energy scam is incredible. I wish more people cared to care….
Thank you! “I’d call [the entire fetish with renewables] insane, but it’d be an insult to crazy people.”
That's kind. Thanks.
Thank you Mr Bryce. A brief thought experiment: dead birds including raptors are found around nuclear plants in similar number - would "environmentalists" be looking the other way?
Real data trumps fake news...great documentation of the failure of the green scam.
Thanks.
Robert always has great graphs…pictures worth a thousand words. The eagle data was sobering.
Thanks. The climatists want to pretend that wind turbines don't kill birds. The numbers show otherwise.