Wind turbines to shut at night following demise of rare bat

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  1. MolonLabe2009

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    It looks like loony left environmentalists are in a pickle.

    Either they kill bats and create free energy 24 hours a day or limit free energy creation and save the bats?

    And for the record, they are not "windmills." They are wind turbines.

    Windmills to shut at night following demise of rare bat
    http://tribune-democrat.com/local/x345569257/Windmills-to-shut-at-night-following-demise-of-rare-bat
     
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    LMAO!!!!!!!!!!

    Dang!! Tried to rep you, but my powers in this sty remain junior.:trout:

    Still laughing...
     
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    I thought bats had really good "radar" through the use of echo location.

    If this type of bat can't avoid large objects, maybe there is a reason they're going extinct. Maybe it's time to leave it to Darwin here.
     
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    "Spinning" large objects.
     
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    Green energy kills endangered species so green energy has got to go. I just love saying that. It must frustrate environmentalists to see their own swords used against them.
     
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    Or an Owl got it and the enviro wackos are using it as an excuse.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgBWNKwBkE&feature=related"]Fatal Attraction: Birds and Wind Turbines - KQED QUEST - YouTube[/ame]

    How asinine is it to invest in this crap. ​
     
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    Leftys should commit suicide to save face....
     
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    The Indiana bat was listed as "endangered throughout its range" in the Federal Register, March 11, 1967..

    Reasons for the bat's decline include disturbance of colonies by human beings, pesticide use and loss of summer habitat resulting from the clearing of forest cover.

    Populations throughout the species' range are also threatened by the spread of white nose syndrome.

    Additionally, Indiana bat mortality due to wind turbines has been confirmed, even resulting in a December 2009 injunction against a West Virginia wind farm
    WIKI
     
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    MoonBats arent endangered....

    Just sayn...
     
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    Well, given that your "sword" is a piece of straw, envornmentalists are not feeling bad at all.

    Techniques are progressing to make wind turbines ever safer for birds, but at their worst, they do not EVER do the kind of environmental destruction and wasting of life that fossil fuels do regularly.

    The rivers stay clean, the ground water is not polluted, the air is not made deadly and disease-causing, and the wind never runs out!

    Fossil fuels are a garbage truck dumping its load on your dinner table, compared to Uncle Harry dribbling some crumbs off of his toast.

    There is no comparison at all.
     
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    Golly, after readin that, you would thinkthe Apocolypse was coming.

    So much emotional drivel over an earthly substance, that Earth created. You do realize, it took fossil fuels to make that wind turbine right?
     
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    This is SOOOOO interesting...
    1) Do all states have their own species of bat?
    2) Who counts them? I mean, does someone actually get paid to count bats?
    3) If they do count them, how do know they are counting all of them or if they are double counting them?
    4) Is the person who counts bats called a "batman" or a "batwomen" as the case may be?
    5) Are bat counters only on the night shift?
    6) Would a bat that flies into a windmill be considered a ding bat by other bats?
     
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    I have no idea... but apparently bats are very important to some people.
     
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    What about all of the Eagles that the wind mills kill during the day??? Over 200 each year.

    I say turn them off during the day and slice the little bats up at night.
     
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    Well, yes.

    That is why using UP the fossil fuels by simply burning them for electricity or cars instead of using the fossil materials for the purposes for which they are very hard to replace, like certain plastics and other processes, is particularly stupid.

    Oil is a 200 million year old storehouse of energy we have already half-depleted in ONE hundred years! Coal is a little longer, but really, if the USA's forefather had said "Screw the Americans of a few centuries from now!", I think we would have been much poorer.

    But the Right has no morals I can see in this regard. Tough luck, future generations, You are On your Own!
     
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    No morals?.... Lol, concerning what? Mother Earth?
     
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    ...diddlerdave, at people like us can produce future generations...you and your liberalgaymafia can't...


    Kabuki Joe
     
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    All of these issues will have to be decided by a federal judge. Then it will have to reviewed by an appellate judge, then it will have to be reheard by a panel of appellate judges, and then it will have to be appealed to the US Supreme Court. And when the bat litigation is over and finally settled, we will start again to litigate all of this crap for the red tail hawk and the desert tortoise, and on and on and on....
     
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    Wind turbine farms need to be shut down and dismantled when they are killing endangered species.
     
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    I have heard rumors that the wind turbines' spin motion creates a deep strobing, chopping, rattling humming sound-wave effect that's just beyond our hearing range, but can cause nausea with extended exposure. I wonder if that is bothering the bat's echo location ability?

    But anyway, why don't they just put up grills around the turbines like they put on fans? It seems so simple a solution but no one does it.
     
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    Geez, one dead bat makes a crisis? Unbelievable!
     
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    Bats are important to keep insect populations down.
     

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