Sentences with phrase «lines than wind turbines»

Also, the fact remains, more birds die from collisions with tall buildings, windows, cars and power lines than wind turbines.

Not exact matches

The bottom line is that these ghastly wind turbines consume more energy in their construction, maintenance, back - up requirements, and ultimate decommissioning than they can ever produce in their lifetimes.

Kristie, if you think this is the main cause of bird deaths you must also do some research in power - lines, skyscrapers and coal power - plants which on average kill more birds than the wind turbines

Skyscrapers, power transmission lines, vehicles and other existing human artifacts / activities are much more lethal to birds than are wind turbines — at least, since small turbines sited on migration routes have become a thing of the past.

Elsewhere, they note, «if society aims to increase output of (say) wind energy with the least energetic investment, it is better in many cases to just build another wind turbine, or possibly transmission lines, than to build a battery to store power that arrives at off - peak times.»

By calculating the EROI of all the options, researchers have found that it can often be better to simply build more wind turbines or solar panels, or even transmission line to move power from somewhere where the sun is shining or the wind is blowing to somewhere where they're not, than to build storage.