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Windmills stopped at night after bat death

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In addition to being screwed when the wind doesn't blow, you're SOL as soon as one lefty constituency collides with another.

At least in China, human beings turn off your power at night whether you want it turned off or not.

Windmills stopped at night after bat death - BostonHerald.com

LILLY, Pa. — Thirty-five windmills at a western Pennsylvania wind farm have been silenced at night since a bat that belongs to an endangered species was found dead under one of the turbines.

The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting the farm shut down the windmills overnight after the Indiana bat was found Sept. 26.

The farm in question was built by Gamesa Energy USA and covers parts of Portage, Washington, and Cresson Townships in Cambria County, and part of Blair County, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh
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Bat's fly at night. Who would have ever guessed that?
 
Geenies putting the kibosh on their own pet technology. They can't be consistant on policy because they have no consistant political ideology.
 
Time to go throw some endangered species onto the freeway. /sarcasm
 
I agree, lets stop the windmills, stripping the top off of a mountain to get the coal and dumping it in a valley certainly wouldn't harm any animals.
 
spud_meister said:
I agree, lets stop the windmills, stripping the top off of a mountain to get the coal and dumping it in a valley certainly wouldn't harm any animals.
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I wonder how many people would be willing to shutdown a major freeway because of a dead animal.
 
J Adams said:
Geenies putting the kibosh on their own pet technology. They can't be consistant on policy because they have no consistant political ideology.
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You don't think endangered species laws should be enforced?

See, the mistake you're making is thinking that "greenies" are one singular group. I could just as easily point out that some "righties" are outright white supremacists but others think black people should be allowed to stay in the country. Hahahah, righties, so ideologically inconsistent!
 
Using this logic (as identified in the OP) we need to stop driving any vehicles ... I saw a possum get run over the other night by a car and it was just horrible! :wink:
 
This is why no one wants to invest in green scams.
 
apdst said:
This is why no one wants to invest in green scams.
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Beats all the other scams we invest in. At least this one gets us clean power. Better that than, say, another $300 million fighter plane built for a war that will never be fought.
 
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Where is the power?
 
Deuce said:
Beats all the other scams we invest in. At least this one gets us clean power. Better that than, say, another $300 million fighter plane built for a war that will never be fought.
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The reason the war will never be fought, is because we have the biggest, bad ass damn military in the world. When will you libs ever get that? Strength equals peace.
 
Is is too much to ask to install a sonic generator or some variation of "dog-away" technology, or am I just making too much sense here?
 
Ockham said:
Using this logic (as identified in the OP) we need to stop driving any vehicles ... I saw a possum get run over the other night by a car and it was just horrible! :wink:
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BS he was just playing dead!!!
 
TurtleDude said:
BS he was just playing dead!!!
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They are crafty little rodents, I'll give them that. Chased two of em out of my cellar a few weeks back. But I do appreciate their appetite for mosquito's especially here in NJ where the mosquito's can sometimes eat a bat instead of the other way around... so I can't be too tough on them.
 
Ockham said:
They are crafty little rodents, I'll give them that. Chased two of em out of my cellar a few weeks back. But I do appreciate their appetite for mosquito's especially here in NJ where the mosquito's can sometimes eat a bat instead of the other way around... so I can't be too tough on them.
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Spud's gonna have a cow over you calling one of his cousins a rodent. They are Marsupials

bats aren't rodents either-insectivores I think (unless its some dude in a cape and a leotard)
 
TurtleDude said:
Spud's gonna have a cow over you calling one of his cousins a rodent. They are Marsupials

bats aren't rodents either-insectivores I think (unless its some dude in a cape and a leotard)
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I fully admit my ignorance when it comes to bats...
 
sawyerloggingon said:
The reason the war will never be fought, is because we have the biggest, bad ass damn military in the world. When will you libs ever get that? Strength equals peace.
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How is it then that as a nation, we have spent more of our history fighting wars than enjoying peacetime?
 
Wind turbines kill a LOT of birds and bats... the real issue that we need to face is the second law of thermodynamics: there's no such thing as a free (entropic) lunch.
 
Deuce said:
Beats all the other scams we invest in. At least this one gets us clean power. Better that than, say, another $300 million fighter plane built for a war that will never be fought.
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I was talking about the investment of private cash. Like it, or not, we still have a private sector in this country.
 
EagleAye said:
Is is too much to ask to install a sonic generator or some variation of "dog-away" technology, or am I just making too much sense here?
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Of course it's too much to ask. The bledding hearts would then start going on about how it gives the birds and bats nervous problems and hampers reproduction, or something.
 
apdst said:
I was talking about the investment of private cash. Like it, or not, we still have a private sector in this country.
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And it's shocking that private industry isn't trying to get in and corner the market early before too many smart players take all the business.
 
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