It's in all the news. Florida, one of the world's great carbon sinks is putting up a massive solar thing. This will cover a huge area! And what is there now, you may ask? It's not like putting it up in some desert, where only snakes and lizards lose their livelihood, this is going over some serious plant growth. Just like Ontario displacing cropland with solar, I can't see how this is a good thing.
Maybe they'll go after the state's cossetted and subsidized sugar farmers, who are killing the Everglades? I doubt it, since they vote Republican. Perhaps cover Disneyworld? Windmills would be good done there, as well; we don't need flamingos!
Since they haven't picked a site yet, this might be just smoke, like locating a nuclear waste site. Time will tell...
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Pffft, any flamingo that can't stay out of the way of a windmill was probably always a secret embarassment to its pink-tinged brethren anyway. "Hey guys, look at me! I'm flying right through this big spinning ---" splat.
I always wonder who gets to pick up the dead birdies, and keep it secret. I'll bet if we used that energy for Fossett, the satellites would pick up lots of dead birds!
"Keep it a secret"...
I think you've spent too much time around nuclear power's dirty laundry! My understanding is that the new, large, wind turbines don't really collect birds. Even the stupidest bird can see what's what. Here in Australia, the man we laughingly refer to as the minister for the environment tried to use some endangered parrot as an excuse to stop a windfarm going in. Not in the coal industry's pocket, no siree.
I understand a single wind turbine is fairly harmless. I wonder what a big wind farm does to nature. At the very least, it keeps the birdies away from feeding. Probably, the rodents like it!
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