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In reply to the discussion: Trump Attacks Windmills in Speech to Conservative Group: 'I Never Understood Wind' [View all]Liberty Belle
(9,532 posts)70. In some areas they have caused massive bird kills, ie along the gulf coast flyway, millions.
One northern California wind farm, Altamont, killed thousands of eagles - it was a major feeding ground where eagles would come form far away.
Of course the rest of what he says is B.A. They don't produce fumes (unless he's referring to factories in China powered by coal that may produce some of the turbines).
As for not understanding how wind turbines (the industry preferred term, not wind mills) it just shows his simple-mindedness. He is probably being put up to this by fossil fuel executives who want to bring back coal and oil fired power plants.
In areas where solar is feasible, I do believe it's better than wind because it doesn't cause massive bird kills and solar panels aren't 500 feet tall, so there are less issues with neighbors over visual blight, flashing lights, noise, vibrations etc. as well as the bird issues.
(The exception is the microwave beam type of solar, which does kill birds. The other types of solar, which are in widest use, are generally safe for birds.)
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Trump Attacks Windmills in Speech to Conservative Group: 'I Never Understood Wind' [View all]
highplainsdem
Dec 2019
OP
Me. I can't laugh because this appallingly ignorant POS is President of the United States.
Martin Eden
Dec 2019
#36
Repubs could have the same policies/goals with Pence but they prefer 45's stupidity & overt racism.
LonePirate
Dec 2019
#6
plus now the whole Trump family will cock block every ambitious Republican for the Pres nom
TeamPooka
Dec 2019
#66
Of course, birds and other animals being killed by petrochemicals is a-okay n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Dec 2019
#8
The real reason he didn't get drafted, not bone spurs but mental incompetence
captain queeg
Dec 2019
#11
If I remember correctly Korax went on to compare the Enterprise to a garbage scow
captain queeg
Dec 2019
#84
If this post is erally what he said, he needs to use a speech writer more often! None of what's in
napi21
Dec 2019
#18
The bigger the wind turbine, the less likely there will be bird strikes.
Liberal In Texas
Dec 2019
#47
The entirety of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" was more coherent than that.
Aristus
Dec 2019
#28
He must be planning to do something really shitty. Cue idiotic distraction.
TheFourthMind
Dec 2019
#59
In some areas they have caused massive bird kills, ie along the gulf coast flyway, millions.
Liberty Belle
Dec 2019
#70
Exactly. I went through this with my father. A smart man with personality disorders, senile dementia
Midnight Writer
Dec 2019
#77
I think his siblings farted in sacks and then made him breathe it when he was a kid.
Captain Zero
Dec 2019
#76