Skyscrapers in particular, but also any glass windows cause more bird death than
wind mills by a significant margin as well.
Not exact matches
At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down
by the
mill of daily life, raw and naked even
by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The
Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces
by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.
GamesRadar is
winding up the good old «Crysis on consoles» rumor
mill again
by posting info from apparent studio insiders at Crytek.
According to the EPA, Iowa's CO2 footprint per person increased
by 30 % at the same time the proportion of electricity from
wind mills increased to 30 %.
It's amazing how so few people cared about birds but suddenly a few deaths are being caused
by renewable energy
wind mills and suddenly they are public enemy number 1.
IN THE U.S., HOW MUCH ENERGY / Renewable 6 % — Biomass 1.48 % — Geothermal 0.41 % — Solar 0.23 % —
Wind 4.13 % Petroleum 1 % Other Gases < 1 % (From the U.S. Energy Information Administration) U.S. Net Electricity Generation by Energy Source (2013) WIND MILL VS. INDUSTRI
Wind 4.13 % Petroleum 1 % Other Gases < 1 % (From the U.S. Energy Information Administration) U.S. Net Electricity Generation
by Energy Source (2013)
WIND MILL VS. INDUSTRI
WIND MILL VS. INDUSTRIAL /
The Dutch even applied
wind power to reclaim land from the sea, and the whole country was kept dry
by intermittently operating
wind mills until 1850.
Poor people benefit, and (maybe) rich ones and the energy companies; wasting may be encouraged.e Subsidies of «renewable energy» are paid manly
by electricity - users and given to rich people who can invest in solar panels or
wind -
mills or biogas - plants.
So - called «industrial water
mills» had been used in Antiquity and were widely adopted in Europe
by the fifteenth century, but «industrial windmills» appeared only in the 1600s in the Netherlands, a country that took
wind power to the extreme.
In 2002, a survey of visitors to the west of Scotland (where
wind farms abound) found that only 8 % said their feelings were negatively affected
by the blades; some 43 % said the
mills made them feel better about the region.
The
wind mill was made
by my husband when he was a kid (it was a kit) and the rocks in the glass jar are little finds we discovered on his uncle's ranch a few summers back.