How old are you , Lew?
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:08:11 -0800
> Subject: Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald Eagle.
> From: lewcoop@aol.com
> To: opendebateforum@googlegroups.com
>
> 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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> Subject: Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald Eagle.
> From: lewcoop@aol.com
> To: opendebateforum@googlegroups.com
>
> 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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