kemmer wrote:
Rather than failing, it seems you never had a Science class to fail.
Let us look at the science class failure
The alternative to evil f****l f**ls, these folk said, are "clean" renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. The environmentalists want us to believe they are more gentle to nature. But are they?
Using birds as the standard, let's examine this assertion.
In the latest U.S. oil spill off the coast of California, 161 birds died, as of the most recent count.
Now, compare this toll to the damage wrought by wind and solar power.
Estimates for bird deaths by wind turbine run from 100,000 a year (the National Research Council) to 300,000 (American Bird Conservancy).
Bloomberg News puts the toll at 573,000 birds in 2012.
At the high end of the estimates, that's well more than 1,000 birds chopped to death each day.
Meanwhile, as many as 28,000 birds are k**led each year — that's one every two minutes — by the Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ivanpah focuses more than 300,000 mirrors on three 459-foot towers, generating heat of up to 800 degrees — enough to fry birds that happen to fly by.
Meanwhile, who cries over the birds that have been carved or scorched?
Apparently, their deaths are acceptable because they gave their lives for the cause of renewable energy.
It's the price a few birds have to pay so some humans can say they are green.
https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/windmills-and-solar-plans-k**l-far-birds-than-oil-spills/