US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries to Revive Coal Industry

Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ... by flukus on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:37AM (#17808036)

How many of those communities would have been suitable for large wind/solar/battery installations, or at least near suitable locations? The Latrobe Valley area already has a lot of the infrastructure built to accommodate the coal power plants that green energy could piggy back off, but they fought too hard and too long in favor of coal and the projects went elsewhere.

> I personally know the director of Clean Coal Victoria

You know a snake oil salesman, clean coal was never, ever going to be real whether he realizes it or not. The false promise of clean coal probably did more to hurt those communities.

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Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ... by dwd on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:53AM (#17809095)

Unfortunately coal is what he knows, and maybe he was sold the snake oil himself.

You are right about the infrastructure being in place, but for wind it's probably on the wrong side of the Strzelecki range. The prevailing winds that you get in the South West where they are constructing a lot of the wind farms may still blow as strong across Wilson's Prom. but "Windy" Warrnambool is a good place for them.

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