Comments for Europeans Blown Away by Govt-Funded Wind Farms at http://thenewamerican.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://thenewamerican.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:45:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-5094 This is just another occurance showing how programmed so many of us have become. The new world order and the forces behind it will us anything to subvert our Christian culture and bend it to their will. All the news seems to really boil down to the war between light and darkness. - Ivanhoe Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:35:41 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4992 Sweden, Denmark, UK and many other nationalities participated as well. One cannot avert a disaster (the climate change) by creating another disaster (industrial wind power). It is as simple as that. - Helen Skeel Taylor Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:33:14 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4985 I hope someone is counting the birds and bats that are killed by the blades of the wind farms. Are these figures published? If so where? - Priscilla Park Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:06:16 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4979 Wind is indeed a fraud. Australians are now suffering from the same infestation. - Frank Campbell Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:38:36 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4957 The European Union does have a target of 20% of energy to be sourced from renewable sources by 2020. This ties in with other targets set by other Directives, such as the Landfill Directive or the Water Framework Directive, i.e. we also need to clean up the wastes going to landfills and slurries and sludges that enter the water courses, encourage some biomass on land that is not being productively used, etc. This is a win win situation in which environmental impact can be reduced and useful energy obtained. It is very very important to stress that wind energy is only one of the eleven technologies listed as renewable in the Directive on Renewable Energy (2009/28/EC), it may well make sense for an island community that is not connected to the national grid in order to supplement diesel fired generation. It does not and never will make economic or environmental sense for addition to an integrated optimised national grid. Furthermore it is essential to realise that there is no objective to obtain the other 80% of the EU's energy from renewable sources, to try and do so would be a breech of the EU's basic principles of consideration of costs, benefits, alternatives and principle of proportionality. Therefore the policy of the Union in this regard is Sustainable Energy, for instance Member States can go nuclear or try and develop a reliable and cost effective method of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), best of luck to them with CCS. Wind energy is not an appropriate method of meeting the EU legislation in force!!! There are far better methods of meeting the targets set, one should start with the low hanging fruit, such as waste to energy via incinerators or anaerobic digestion of agricultural and food wastes. - Pat Swords Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:15:32 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4948 So the media gave very little press coverage to the story? Gee, doesn't that sound familiar? Did "our people" meet with their people, or vice versa? As for the French landscape, not to worry--the "eco-freaks" will find a "eco-solution." Why look what they did for us with the cell phone towers. Don't they look lovely with the fake trees mounted on them? - still free Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:08:47 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4943 Individuals worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned with the impacts of wind energy development on families, communities, and our natural resources. It's time to stop the NIMBY name calling and take steps to understand the issues. While wind may be renewable, our landscapes and quality of life are not. Thank you for covering this story. - Lisa Linowes Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:08:17 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4941 You are to be congratulated for reporting an event that the media at large ignored. Political correctness has no business meddling with energy policy, engineering, and science. Windfarms are a scam. Dr Etherington demonstrated that much in his new book "The Windfarm Scam". He should know what he is talking about: before retiring he was professor of ecology at the University of Wales. - mark duchamp Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:32:50 +0100 http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/1985-europeans-blown-away-by-govt-funded-wind-farms#comment-4933 And many of those eco-freaks have supported wind farms inplace of nucular energy but the facts that wind turbines are hazerdous to birds and their unreliable as well so what will the idiots from GREENPEACE do now that wind farms are not so enviromentaly freindly as the green wackos have claimed they are - Flu-Bird Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:21:43 +0100