You are exactly right.

If we could replace the acres of expensive and ineffective wind turbines with trees (as they do in Israel), we could enrich the soil, prevent soil erosion with their roots, and add moisture to the air.

The eagle and raptor k*****g is truly a crime against humanity and we should be ashamed of ourselves for letting it happen…. with trillions of cubic feet of natural gas and billions of barrels of oil just waiting to be fracked from the U.S. shale….WHAT TOTAL VACANT SPACE these environmental whackos have for brains!!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/world/asia/ntj-warning-sri-lanka-government.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians

April 22, 2019

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone numbers, even the times in the middle of the night that one suspect would visit his wife.

In the days leading up to the devastating suicide bombings that k**led at least 310 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, the country’s security agencies had been closely watching a secretive cell of the National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a little-known radical Islamist organization that security officials in Sri Lanka now say carried out the attacks and may have received help from abroad.

They knew the group was dangerous. They had collected intelligence on the whereabouts of its leaders in the April 11 security memo, which warned of Catholic church bombings. They had been warned even earlier by India that the group, also known by the spelling National Thowheed Jama’ath, was plotting church attacks. They knew as far back as January that radical Islamists possibly tied to the group had stockpiled weapons and detonators.

And within hours of when three churches and three hotels were bombed, Sri Lankan security services swooped down on at least 24 suspects — by Tuesday the number had grown to 40 — suggesting that officials also knew exactly where the group had been operating.

Why the security agencies failed to act aggressively on the information before the bombings is now an enormous question. It has been further complicated by a feud between the president and prime minister, which left the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, ignorant of the information the security agencies possessed — leading to bitter recriminations that have created a new government crisis.

The history of bitter infighting between Sri Lanka’s leaders appears to have contributed to a spectacular security breakdown that led to one of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks.

Just a thought...

Both Christianity and Islam are minority religions in Sri Lanka...
By allowing this attack the government now has excellent validation for surveilling both groups... As well as implementing certain measures to "prevent a reoccurance"...
The fact that is was Muslim extremists executing yet another attack on Christians (Especially during such a special time) ,and included foreigners, is certain to play on the sympathies of the West...
These might be contributing factors to the government's lackluster response to the knowledge of the threat...

The use of windmills as an alternative to petroleum and nuclear power is utterly futile, considering that the total amount of electricity generated by solar and wind power is equivalent to the energy output of only one medium-sized coal mine, or the equivalent of about 76,000 barrels of oil a day.

The wind doesn't blow constantly or even predictably, so I would be unable to depend on it. To run my kitchen appliances on a calm day, I would have to have an enormous battery bank and a very large inverter. Even if the wind blew all day and all night, I'd have a hard time generating power as cheaply as I could buy it from the local electric utility.

Edit addition:

Wind turbine installations impact vast amounts of habitat and crop land, and offshore wind turbines impact vast stretches of lake or ocean — far more than traditional power plants. Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear plant generates 3,750 megawatts of electricity from a 4,000-acre site.

The 600-MW John Turk ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant in Arkansas covers a small portion of 2,900 acres; gas-fired units like Calpine's 560-MW Fox Energy Center in Wisconsin require several hundred acres. All generate reliable power 90-95% of the year.

By contrast, the 600-MW Fowler Ridge wind installation (355 turbines) spans 50,000 acres of farm country along Indiana's I-65 corridor. The 782-MW Roscoe project in Texas (627 turbines) sprawls across 100,000 acres.