Sentences with phrase «than wind turbines»

Making the world hotter than it has been for the last several million years will kill more birds than wind turbines ever could.

This is because the same capacity nuclear plant generates three times more power than a wind turbine.

This is also WAY shorter than the wind turbine manufacturer's recommendation.

That's because it takes more energy to manufacture solar panels than wind turbines.

Because water has greater density than air and flows are more constant than wind, underwater turbines can deliver much more energy than wind turbines.

There is no sight on earth more beautiful than a wind turbine going down in flames.

This may be costly (*), but for sure is magnitude cheaper than wind turbine, solar panel and the like.

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

Also, despite oil companies being the largest businesses in the world they still accept subsidies from the government... much more than wind turbine subsidies.

When you and your family use more power than your wind turbine is producing, your utility power will take over.

Subsequent laboratory experiments using volunteers working for SERI (rather than wind turbine noise sensitised residents) reproduced the sound energy and the variable effects on those exposed.

While right now wind power has overtaken nuclear in China, and wind should keep growing rapidly, it takes a lot longer to build a reactor than a wind turbine, so these number will likely look different over time.

In this context, if people did get a decent pay back period from micro-generation then the potential contribution to the grid would amount to more than all your wind turbines put together and so wouldn't just be a token amount but actually part of the package of solutions.

Environmentalists of the kind lovingly called «tree huggers» (rather than wind turbine worshippers) are finally cottoning on to the fact that the wind industry is anything but the «clean, green» energy source its proponents claim it to be.

In response to The Lima News editorial on wind turbine setback policy, here are some questions to consider: I would like someone to name one type of zoning law that actually has language that measures a structure to the house of a neighboring landowner other than wind turbine siting.

Then in 2016, Donald Trump offered a more general critique of wind energy noting that wind turbines are «killing all the eagles» despite studies showing that tall buildings, like those built by real estate developers such as Mr. Trump, cause much higher rates of bird mortality than wind turbines do.

I'd say if we're concerned about bird mortality, structures such as power lines and skyscrapers would be better candidates for safety engineering than wind turbines, since they kill far more birds than the turbines do.

There can be few technologies that elicit a more divisive reaction than wind turbines.

Mr Walker did not mention the fact that the world's bird protection groups support wind power because they know that uncontrolled climate change will be far worse for birds than wind turbines.

That makes the bridge 48 feet shorter than wind turbines being proposed for Shiawassee County.

> Okey doke; let's agree that windpower is a good thing, generally, that it's desirable that engineering solutions be sought to (further) minimize and certainly monitor the effect on bird life — especially raptors — and that the «cats kill more birds than wind turbines» argument isn't a stellar example of a well - reasoned scientific argument addressing a legit scientific concern.

Also, cats kill more birds than wind turbines.

See also::: Cats More Lethal to Birds Than Wind Turbines,:: America Celebrates Endangered Species Day,:: Coal State Rep Worried About Bats and Birds,:: Common Eco-Myth: Wind Turbines Kill Birds

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

Cats kill more birds than wind turbines?

-- interesting argument however high - rise buildings in our cities kill more by a factor of 1000 X's than wind turbines.

We put together a list of things that kill more birds than wind turbines to put that in perspective.

All the studies I have seen indicate that building strikes kill many orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines.

According to the Audubon Society, up to a billion birds are killed each year by colliding with windows, the second biggest threat after habitat loss, and a whole lot more than wind turbines.