A Wind Turbine’s Blades Fly Off In New York City, Crushing A Billboard And Vehicle
CHRIS WHITE TECH REPORTER . Blades from a massive wind turbine crumpled to the ground Monday, smashing a car flat and damaging another piece of infrastructure, authorities said. “This shouldn’t have been put up so hastily. A wind turbine should not be able to be taken down by the wind,” state Sen. Jamaal Bailey said during a […]
Researchers Spend Hundreds of Thousands to Stop Wind Turbines from Killing Eagles
Jason Hopkins | Energy Investigator Researchers in Oregon are using a federal grant of over half a million dollars to figure out how to stop wind turbines from killing thousands of birds every year. Researchers at Oregon State University were awarded a 27-month, $625,000 grant from the Department of Energy Wind Technology Office i n May […]
Revisiting wind turbine impacts
. By Paul Driessen Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims It’s amazing, though hardly surprising, how quickly some used Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to claim that fossil fuel emissions are driving catastrophic climate change and weather. Their proffered solution, of course, is to replace those fuels with “clean, sustainable, renewable” energy. I’ve […]
Are wind turbines killing whales?
By Paul Driessen and Mark Duchamp Environmentalists say navy sonar hurts whales, but ignore impacts of offshore wind farms Between January 9 and February 4 this year, 29 sperm whales got stranded and died on English, German and Dutch beaches. Environmentalists and the news media offered multiple explanations – except the most obvious and likely […]
