Greenies vs. endangered species, and other stories

Those big wind farms with the hundred-foot diameter blades chop up any flying creatures unlucky enough to fly through the rotor. Anyone with half a brain could see that coming.
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October 17, 2011

Windmills to shut at night following demise of rare bat

Kathy Mellott kmellott@tribdem.com

 

LILLY — Night operation of the windmills in the North Allegheny Windpower Project has been halted following discovery of a dead Indiana bat under one of the turbines, an official with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday.

The finding marks only the second location where an Indiana bat has been found dead under a wind turbine. Two Indiana bats were found under turbines in the Mid-west, said Clint Riley, supervisor for Fish and Wildlife’s Pennsylvania field office.

“While finding the dead bat is not good news for any of us, it does show the monitoring works,” Riley said from his State College office.

The find is significant because the Indiana bat is an endangered species and is protected by the federal Endangered Species Act.
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H/t Borepatch
Of course, shutting down the windmills at night just about doubles the cost of the things. So now, instead of costing five times what nuclear electricity does, these things are now eight times as costly.


Then we have this:
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Wind power causes more deaths than nuclear power 

While this post technically will go under the Green Tech category here at The Inquisitr it equally could go under the Funny category because it really would be funny if not for the fact that it is stupid.

According to the folks over at Treehugger there is an author over at The New American that is trying to make the case that wind power is more dangerous than nuclear power because there have been more wind power related deaths than the zero death rate encountered in the nuclear industry.

That’s right folks – the suggestion the author is making is that nuclear power is safer than wind power because there hasn’t been a single nuclear plant related death in 40 years. With the short life of wind power though we have a growing number of deaths; which Treehugger kindly listed out for us
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Of course, those deaths are only humans, and so ignorable.

And this:
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Ouch. More Bird-o-Matic videos at YouTube