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J. P. Bruce's avatar

Like all of Thomas Sheridan's Substack pieces, this is short and to the point. No excess verbiage, no pointless 'explanation', no repetition. And I agree with every word!

My heart sinks if I am in some remote part of the Irish countryside and I see a phalanx of these hideous turbines in front of me. Once I saw a bunch of them in a field somewhere. In one of the three or four the blades were still. The others were rotating in lockstep like the hands of a clock, even though there was not a breath of wind in the air. Unsurprisingly my suspicions were raised about what was really going on here.

But even if wind turbines DO genuinely contribute power to the electric grid, is it it worth the cost in animal health and human misery?

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Well said. and timely. On the eastern side of Wisconsin they visually pollute the skies above thousands of acres of farm fields while the slating of the turbines nearer the towns cause flickering light and the sound is a constant annoyance whenever the wind blows. They were built to augment the electric grid for Wisconsin's large cities but built right on the major migratory flyway for Canada geese and ducks. Then the fun part is that the companies that built them sell them off to other companies after a few year and they never become all that profitable. It becomes last one in loses as they age out and need to be torn down and replaced. But, are the fields of solar panels really any better? Still have the changes in electric fields, still the recycling issue and usage of vast acreage close to the ground. What works on a small scale like sailboats with a small wind turbine and a few solar panels is not so good scaled up. Also what happens when the lithium ion batteries on that boat catches fire at sea?

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