Biden's decision to cancel Keystone is one the US will eventually regret.

Texas can’t even figure out how to use windmills. I mean c’mon for real? Wtf

oldmustang said:

solar farms HAHAHA what a fucking laugh! They performed real well during the last freeze, right next to the still wind turbines.

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Windmills are designed to shut down over imbalance issues. Like, you know, freezing rain and snow accumulation.

How well did natural gas do again.....?

smokinrav said:

Windmills are designed to shut down over imbalance issues. Like, you know, freezing rain and snow.

How well did natural gas do again.....?

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Actually they work fine in Antarctica. But it doesn’t get nearly as cold in Antarctica as it did in Texas.

Yeah, it was really the freezing rain that shut down the windfarms. No freezing rain at the poles. Yet.

rkymtnman said:

don't hear too much about solar farms leaking do ya?

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Nope but they fry a lot of birds that fly over them..

smokinrav said:

Yeah, it was really the freezing rain that shut down the windfarms. No freezing rain at the poles. Yet.

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It was lack of heating elements because Texas bought the windmills at Walmart

Turns out, if you paint one blade of three black, birds don't fly into windmill blades as often

Ikr?

farmingfisherman said:

Nope but they fry a lot of birds that fly over them..

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That and windmills we aren't helping the avian communities of our world, but shits green so guess that's okay..

farmingfisherman said:

Nope but they fry a lot of birds that fly over them..

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That's crazy. So much for it being environmentally friendly, lol.

I guess they call the birds that's get torched and the smoke they put off "Streamers". That's harsh but funny at the same time.

PadawanWarrior said:

That's crazy. So much for it being environmentally friendly, lol.

I guess they call the birds that's get torched and the smoke they put off "Streamers". That's harsh but funny at the same time.

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Just another example of man deciding what gets to live and die on the blue orb.

farmingfisherman said:

Just another example of man deciding what gets to live and die on the blue orb.

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Ya, I'm a fan of nature. I'm in CO now so I have lots of wildlife around me and I have reported people for being stupid. Salt licks in the yard, and one neighbors kid actually shot a deer with a cheesy little bow. It barely went in, but their lungs are right under the skin and they got it just right. The arrow fell right out, but I called GFP and they came out the next day and found it dead.

farmingfisherman said:

That and windmills we aren't helping the avian communities of our world, but shits green so guess that's okay..

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I never saw a dead bird under any windmills after painting too many support towers in two major wind farms here and in IN. I here the tales. Never saw one.

MICHI-CAN said:

I never saw a dead bird under any windmills after painting too many support towers in two major wind farms here and in IN. I here the tales. Never saw one.

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It happens sadly. Close friend of ours is a wildlife curator at a museum he has several raptors that were found after striking blades in the Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon areas. Things are freaking huge and when they are spinning quick quite a sight to see. Had one here a few years ago go over when the tech didn't lock the blades so as not to catch air. They spun it, the blades caught the air but were locked to not spin. One guy died another ended up seriously hurt.

farmingfisherman said:

It happens sadly. Close friend of ours is a wildlife curator at a museum he has several raptors that were found after striking blades in the Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon areas. Things are freaking huge and when they are spinning quick quite a sight to see. Had one here a few years ago go over when the tech didn't lock the blades so as not to catch air. They spun it, the blades caught the air but were locked to not spin. One guy died another ended up seriously hurt.

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Sad to hear those events. Operator error. Failure to perform and confirm proper lock out procedures. And I've never seen a blade spinning at an un avoidable speed. In our 40 -50 MPH gusts. I can see it. But not as real threat. I'd worry more about the chemical laced diets of our beloved raptors.

And just a thought. Am I anti wildlife because my picture window induces multiple suicide bird strikes yearly.

Big oil talking points killing me. Walk through a wind farm and show me the corpses. Then show me the numbers for decline in birds period due to fertilizer, pesticides and power plant emissions or the mining to supply them.

I think their is a bigger picture than you are looking at. And denying a small but decent actual aid to avian, and all, survival.

MICHI-CAN said:

Sad to hear those events. Operator error. Failure to perform and confirm proper lock out procedures. And I've never seen a blade spinning at an un avoidable speed. In our 40 -50 MPH gusts. I can see it. But not as real threat. I'd worry more about the chemical laced diets of our beloved raptors.

And just a thought. Am I anti wildlife because my picture window induces multiple suicide bird strikes yearly.

Big oil talking points killing me. Walk through a wind farm and show me the corpses. Then show me the numbers for decline in birds period due to fertilizer, pesticides and power plant emissions or the mining to supply them.

I think their is a bigger picture than you are looking at. And denying a small but decent actual aid to avian, and all, survival.

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Animals die all the time because of our needs. Windmills are just another in a very long list of things humans have decided we need in our lives that are harmful to other species.

farmingfisherman said:

Animals die all the time because of our needs. Windmills are just another in a very long list of things humans have decided we need in our lives that are harmful to other species.

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Here's my bipartisan idea. American's are getting fat anyways. This will solve multiple problems and the birds will be safe.

PadawanWarrior said:

Here's my bipartisan idea. American's are getting fat anyways. This will solve multiple problems and the birds will be safe.

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I can picture @PadawanWarrior as a fat ass hamster running on a treadmill all day and not losing a pound as he stuffs his little hamster face with Cheetos.

V256.420 said:

I can picture @PadawanWarrior as a fat ass hamster running on a treadmill all day and not losing a pound as he stuffs his little hamster face with Cheetos.

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Thanks for that image. I’m going to laugh all day about that.

oldmustang said:

solar farms HAHAHA what a fucking laugh! They performed real well during the last freeze, right next to the still wind turbines.

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