ThatOwlWoman (01-24-2021)
ThatOwlWoman (01-24-2021)
It's fair to point out that Heinlein was right when he coined the acronym TANSTAAFL -- There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
All energy received comes at a cost. We wealthy nations need to be balancing the costs and choosing wisely, because we can afford to. The continued reliance on fossil fuels will end us.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
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Cypress (01-24-2021)
ThatOwlWoman (01-24-2021)
There is a reason this Abstract is at the beginning of your link.
"This article explores the threats that wind farms pose to birds and bats before briefly surveying the recent literature on avian mortality and summarizing some of the problems with it. Based on operating performance in the United States and Europe, this study offers an approximate calculation for the number of birds killed per kWh generated for wind electricity, fossil-fuel, and nuclear power systems. The study estimates that wind farms and nuclear power stations are responsible each for between 0.3 and 0.4 fatalities per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity while fossil-fueled power stations are responsible for about 5.2 fatalities per GWh. While this paper should be respected as a preliminary assessment, the estimate means that wind farms killed approximately seven thousand birds in the United States in 2006 but nuclear plants killed about 327,000 and fossil-fueled power plants 14.5 million. The paper concludes that further study is needed, but also that fossil-fueled power stations appear to pose a much greater threat to avian wildlife than wind and nuclear power technologies."
This paper was written in 2009 when Wind was still at its infancy. Wind accounted for 73.9 TWh per year power in the U.S., Nuclear 798.9 TWh per year and Fossil Fuels 2726.5 TWh per year. As you can clearly see the paper does not take into account the
proportional disparity in energy sources. So, if you put Wind into the Nuclear and Fossil Fuel equivalent, Wind would be responsible for 2.9 Avian Deaths per GWh, and 191.1 Avian deaths per GWh. As you can clearly see much, much higher than Nuclear or Fossil Fuels. Wind is not even close for safety.
Exactly. The problem we have with the Reichwing though is that they do not value things that cannot be utilized for profit. From the lowliest bubba living in a small home in a rural area, to a wealthy industrialist -- the world and the beings on it are ours to exploit.
You want to protect your state's environment? Build a strong Dept. of Conservative/DNR that has power to regulate hunting and fishing. If you can get those guys to realize that their sport will be gone if we don't manage the planet wisely, then we have a chance. The problem is RW media tells hunters stupid shit like Biden gonna take your guns, Biden gonna close up hunting, Biden gonna ruin jobs by issuing new environmental reg orders, etc. etc.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
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Cypress (01-24-2021)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Yet another that uses that bullshit website. Of course it's no coincincidence that your buddy Croc o' Shit uses it as well! This is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject.
The Columbia Journalism Review describes Media Bias/Fact Check as an amateur attempt at categorizing media bias and Van Zandt as an "armchair media analyst."[2] The Poynter Institute notes, "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."[4] Alexandra Kitty, in a 2018 book on journalism, described MBFC as an apparent "amateur/civic outfit" and wrote that its founder's only qualification was a degree in communications.[
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All science is provisional until years or decades of continuing analysis and experimentation results in a widespread consensus. The article provides a peer reviewed analysis which had passed muster in a reputable scientific publication.
Here is a 2013 study that provides the same conclusion: compared to fossil fuels and nuclear, wind farms are vastly more safe for avian wildlife and bats. By a country mile.
The Avian and Wildlife Costs of Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences vol. 9, no. 4, December 2012, 255-278 (June 2013)
Within the uncertainties of the data used, the estimate means that wind farm-related avian fatalities equated to approximately 46,000 birds in the United States in 2009, but nuclear power plants killed about 460,000 and fossil-fueled power plants 24 million.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=2198024
ThatOwlWoman (01-24-2021)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
you forgot the 71k construction jobs -and the pipeline is all US Steel - more jobs
Also millions in tax revenues lost by the states.
Biden is a disaster out to kill the energy sector.
Our inability to build a FUCKING PIPELINE
thru 3 administrations speaks volumes of government confusion.
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