Monday, February 20, 2012
"Blowing Away the Windmill Lies"
"Windfall" - a documentary involving a place: Meredith, New York...
John Boot recently posted about the issues and the movie at PJmedia.com:
"It would appear that there is more to clean and renewable energy production than we have been led to believe. Moreover, due to the intermittent nature of wind energy, nearby fossil-fuel power plants still have to be kept running in order to cover for the down times. Any overall reduction in carbon emissions is minimal. Moreover, the windmills often require trees to be cut down and roads to be cut into pristine countryside. Birds and other animals fall prey to the massive blades, and such is the pressure created that bat lungs explode. A bat expert quoted in the documentary speculates that massive deployment of windmills could put bats at risk of extinction. The more you look into windmills, then, the more they seem like the 21st century’s ethanol — a huckster cure that does little about the disease or maybe makes it worse.
So why are these windmills being built in the first place? As is often the case when something bizarre and senseless catches on, there is a one-word answer."