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Here's his logic, so you don't have to subject yourself to that "article" -> solar and wind contribute very little to global energy at the moment. Energy demand is growing at 2% per year. Therefore, wind and solar won't contribute a significant chunk of energy ever. Therefore, let's invest in gas.

Dumpster tier reporting. On a side note, does HN blacklist any sites for being chronically bad?

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There was an estimate of the cost of keeping up with demand using wind - and the back-of-the-envelope numbers were discouraging. 2TW per year, and wind power takes a huge investment in the towers to produce relatively tiny amounts of watts.

They might also kill lots of birds, see: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w...

And they look ugly as well. Personally I hope we can get rid of wind turbines as soon as possible.

They kill one bird for every ten thousand killed by housecats.

When they're situated in mountain passes, they kill a lot of birds.

When they're situated in windswept plains, they do not.

FYI they kill a lot of bats too. Many of them are turned off at certain times so as to kill fewer (source - wife is a bat-ologist)

That is true, they do, but in the UK at least all new ones/sites do need full ecological impact assessments (there are various levels of assessment needed depending on habitat suitability) and hopefully there will be a lessening on the problem long-term - off-shore is the way to go, of course!

(I do/help with these assessments)

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