A time traveller trying to save us from some unseen future disaster caused by wind energy seems at least as likely as aliens.

Misspelt, but: https://adampage.bandcamp.com/track/preventing-a-future-disa...

Now I'm trying to creatively imagine a disaster caused by wind energy? Near human extinction from all of the cancer the windmills create? World wild exitinction from birds from all of them being killed by the windmills? Near worldwide deafness in all humans from the humming they generate? I'm just running through all of the right wing consipriacies I've heard about. I'm not creative enough to come up with that nonsense.

The California Condor is the key to ending the 2073 pandemic. Their extinction due to wind farms in 2065 is about to lead to extinction of the human race. They discover a time travel mechanism that only works for energy, not matter. They can't travel back in time and just grab some condors or open a time portal underneath an unsuspecting condor, since the portals don't work with matter. They open a time portal for radio waves and use a 5G modem to sabotage wind farms in 2022.

It turns out that all of the hysteria against 5G was an attempt by a psychopathic dictator in the future to end humanity by taking down all of the 5G towers to prevent the sabotage of the wind farms.

Although you're joking, it's important to note that the angle of birds being killed by wind farms is a tactic used by people who want to see wind projects fail or not happen but want to dress this up in environmentalist sounding language. It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation.

Close to heart because I know of a major wind project cancelled in my area due to the government commissioning an 'environmental review' which concluded the whole project had to be canned because it'd endanger a parrot. Meanwhile, the logging continued unabated...

> It's not that birds are never killed by wind turbines, it's that this is scrutiny only applied to wind turbines by the fake-environmentalists when they'll happily accept the environmental destruction of other methods of power generation.

Meanwhile the raptors are still shredded...

I fully stand by the statement that it's basically only fake environmentalists who care. Yes, some real environmentalists do too, but seriously: the wholesale destruction of the entire biosphere due to the rampant use of fossil fuels, the destruction of entire ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, and some people only focus on how we shouldn't build wind farms because of the birds. Colour me cynical about most people who bring up wind farms and birds.

Again, I know of projects where that entire angle was just a political one used to cancel wind projects in favour of staying reliant on coal. I liked that parrot too; it's probably doomed anyway due to the fact that destruction of native forests is rampant. How will the raptors do in global warming?

> How will the raptors do in global warming?

Raptors will probably go extinct first because nutty activists imagine criticism of misguided environmental priorities may be safely ignored because of who brought it up...thus committing a tragic error.

My personal feeling is giant HAWT technology should be banned due to the potential for environmental damage.

Numbers, people. How many are actually killed by wind turbines, versus loss of habitat, deliberate poisoning, hunters, etc?

The big threats to smaller birds are glass buildings and domestic cats, but they don't get as much discourse.

I live about 15km from a moderately-sized airport, and I can hear the deep rumble when planes take off during the quieter hours of the day. Airports aren't getting banned anytime soon, and don't seem to have caused any measurable health problems to the surrounding population.

Same thing for surf beach communities. First time I stayed a few days near a surf beach I was surprised by the penetrating deep rumble of every single set of waves that crashed on the beach.

I think the health issues caused by living near a wind farm would be similar to those experienced by living near anything that the individual has some kind of righteous moral opposition to (read: lack of understanding of).

Imagine a future where airports can only be located 50km from any other civilisation due to the health effects that wind farms are accused of causing. Combine that with 4G being the upper limit of mobile connectivity because 5G was found to be both a Chinese conspiracy for world domination and a radiation health risk.

In 2100, aliens arrive. It turns out that Earth is just perfectly temperate for them. The only way to avoid their conquest of the planet is to make it a couple degrees hotter than we're already on track for (they are very picky).

Morbo the Annihilator has finally had enough of people building windmills to try to keep the Earth cool with big fans.