Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald Eagle.

Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald
Eagle.


11:05 AM, Dec 28, 2012 •
By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

weeklystandard.com

It's symbolically appropriate that one of President Obama's preferred
forms of "green energy" crony capitalism has the effect of killing off
the national bird. The federal wind production tax credit (PTC) is
mercifully set to expire on New Year's Eve. The PTC provides a
financial boon, at great taxpayer expense, to well-connected companies
that build eyesore wind farms that kill great birds of prey and pretty
much anything else that flies within the range of their "green"
blades. The nonpartisan Institute for Energy Research estimates that
if this cozy arrangement between big government and big business were
to be extended, it would cost American taxpayers $55,000,000,000. The
fate of the PTC — and of that $55 billion— now rests with House
Republicans, who would have to approve the PTC's renewal.




As John Fund writes today at National Review Online:

"[N]o matter how much money is blown its way, wind power — for simple
scientific reasons — can't graduate to the kind of large-scale,
reliable energy production that its backers tout. Physicist and
environmentalist John Droz Jr. notes: 'There is no real environmental
benefit to wind, because a) it's an unpredictable commodity, b) output
from any group of wind projects can and will go to zero on many
occasions, and c) energy generated from industrial wind power cannot
be economically stored.' Germany, which has gone stark raving mad in
building wind turbines, has proven just how unreliable it is. On one
day this February, wind power delivered a third of Germany's
electricity needs, but four days later, on a still day, it contributed
precisely zero."

Fund adds:



"Then there is the carnage inflicted on Mother Nature. Paul Driessen
reported in the Washington Times that 'the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service estimates that wind turbines kill 440,000 bald and golden
eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, cranes, egrets, geese, and other birds
every year in the U.S., along with countless insect-eating bats.' The
actual numbers are probably far higher. The turbine blades of the
nation's 39,000 windmills move at 100 to 200 miles per hour and can
mow down anything that gets in their path.



"Over the past 25 years, an estimated 2,300 golden eagles have been
killed by turbines at Altamont Pass, Calif., alone, leading to an 80
percent drop in the golden-eagle population of southern California."

But there is at least one more way in which wind farms undermine,
rather than improve, the environment. They are aesthetically hideous.
At close range, these giant, eagle-killing windmills — and some of
them are giant — look like something implanted on earth by an
unfriendly alien civilization. Nobody would ever want to live near
one.

So, why are liberals so fond of them? Because they never get built in
cities, where liberals live. As for why liberals can overlook the
carnage, that's a good question.

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