European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks

Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by bigDinosaur on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:54PM (#31163137)

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...

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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by no-s on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:16PM (#31163271)

> 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...

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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by bigDinosaur on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:09PM (#31163564)

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?

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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by no-s on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:22AM (#31163906)

> 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.

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Re:European wind-energy sector hit in wave of hacks by pjc50 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:51AM (#31165331)

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.

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