What follows is a roughly 4-minute video which shows how Germany has transformed a large part of its once idyllic landscape into an industrial wasteland littered by wind turbines – all in the name of environmentalism.
And it warns that if wind energy movement continues in Germany, the entire country will look like the images shown.
The video starts by showing the earlier beauty of the German landscape, which once had inspired a number of fairy tales.
Next, the video shows what happened once a group of “green” industrialists and totally misguided “environmentalists” got their way and plastered the country with some 30,000 turbines.
At the 1-minute mark, the video tells viewers that the EEG feed-in act made the destruction possible. The power which can be guaranteed to be delivered at any given time? Close to zero.
And: “No region will be spared.”
If Germany wishes to provide a large share of its primary energy through wind power, then some ten times the number of turbines will need to be installed.
The video ends with the message:
The windfarms with the new 200-meter wind turbines and their intrusion into the landscape, poor economy, social structure, and ignoring the completely random power generation – unthinkable!
In Europe, if everyone wanted to have their say and decide, it would be necessary to conduct and discuss years-long environmental and social compatibility studies and have to comply with the laws governing water and species protection as well as to regulate compensation for damages arising from real estate value losses, etc…
Wind turbine plantations of the magnitude found in Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig Holstein and Vogelsberg can only be implemented by an authoritarian political system that is characterized by a high degree of corruption, contempt for human rights, and protection of nature.”
Sad.
This is what happens when a virulent ideology takes over common sense.
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A recent study of 29 wind farms by the University of Exeter, which used sniffer dogs to locate stricken bats near turbines, found 194 were killed each month.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/08/26/red-light-spells-danger-bats-near-wind-turbines/
http://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/guest-columnists/industrial-wind-is-destroying-iowas-eagle-habitats-20151227
Wind farms are clusters of turbines as tall as 30-story buildings, with spinning rotors as wide as a passenger jet’s wingspan. Though the blades appear to move slowly, they can reach speeds of up to 170 mph at the tips, creating tornado-like vortexes. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/12/house-panel-subpoenas-white-house-on-wind-power-eagle-deaths/
Bob Sallinger with the Audubon Society of Portland said wind farms across the country have killed more than 80 eagles over the last decade.
“If you have dozens and dozens of them on the landscape it is basically a giant Cuisinart for birds,” said Sallinger. “Bald eagles took decades to recover … we almost lost them because of DDT. Golden eagles are a species biologists are concerned about because they appear to be declining.” http://www.kgw.com/news/Official-Wind–257599781.html
“Improperly sited and operated wind energy facilities can kill significant numbers of federally protected birds and other species,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, urging developers to follow the Service’s Land-based Wind Energy Guidelines. “That’s why it’s imperative that wind energy developers work with the Fish and Wildlife Service to minimize these impacts at every stage in the process.”
Commercial wind power projects can cause the deaths of federally protected birds in four primary ways: collision with wind turbines, collision with associated meteorological towers, collision with, or electrocution by, associated electrical power facilities, and nest abandonment or behavior avoidance from habitat modification.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/utility-company-sentenced-wyoming-killing-protected-birds-wind-projects-0
A recent study by federal and state scientists found that U.S. wind turbines could kill up to 1.4 million birds of all species per year by 2030 as the wind energy industry continues to expand. http://www.ibtimes.com/should-wind-turbines-be-allowed-kill-eagles-debate-ratchets-bird-group-lawsuit-1607240
http://silverford.com/blog//wp-content/uploads/2012/02/wind-speeds-on-site1.jpg
“Chokecherry and Sierra Madre, the largest onshore wind farm planned in the United States, would annually kill 10 to 14 golden eagles, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service projected in a draft environmental study released Wednesday. That figure represents a substantial reduction from the 46 to 64 golden eagle fatalities estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in 2012.
” http://trib.com/business/energy/feds-project-reduction-in-eagle-deaths-at-chokecherry-and-sierra/article_d0a88aec-3145-5cd2-8f7f-503b421275b1.html
” The U.S. Bureau of Land Management estimated in 2012 that all 1,000 turbines would kill 46-64 golden eagles. The Fish and Wildlife estimate, which applies only to the first phase, takes into consideration measures including wind turbine siting intended to reduce eagle deaths. ” http://www.bcdemocrat.com/2016/04/20/wy-wind-farm-eagles/
“I estimated 888,000 bat and 573,000 bird fatalities/year (including 83,000 raptor fatalities) at 51,630 megawatt (MW) of installed wind-energy capacity in the United States in 2012,” writes K. Shawn Smallwood, author of the study that was published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin. http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/20/wind-turbines-kill-more-birds-than-bp-oil-spill/
Killing large numbers of eagles and other birds can land a wind farms in court, as happened in 2014 when Portland, Oregon-based PacifiCorp pleaded guilty and was fined $2.5 million for killing 38 golden eagles and 336 other protected birds over five years at a Wyoming wind farm.http://www.wftv.com/news/business/big-wyoming-wind-project-closing-in-on-federal-eagle-permit/474408604
Bill Evans has researched the impact of wind projects on birds and bats for 20 years. Evans was qualified as an expert in avian acoustic monitoring and nocturnal bird migration. He said that a number of species in Ontario, including the Purple Martin, have been in long-term decline, but Stantec did no surveys of Purple Martins during late summer when large numbers gather to roost. Evans noted that Purple Martin collision fatalities are increasing at Ontario wind facilities and made up 6.09% of all bird fatalities in 2014, higher than in 2012.https://ottawawindconcerns.com/2015/12/02/wolfe-island-most-dangerous-wind-farm-in-north-america-for-birds-experts-testify-at-appeal-hearing/comment-page-1/#comment-16556
Based on methods commonly used across the rest of North America, Smallwood estimates that Wolfe Island kills 21.9 birds per turbine per year. This is nearly twice the number reported by Stantec using searches only within a 50-foot radius, less than half of standard practice. Smallwood considers Wolfe Island one of the most dangerous wind projects on the American continent.https://ottawawindconcerns.com/2015/12/02/wolfe-island-most-dangerous-wind-farm-in-north-america-for-birds-experts-testify-at-appeal-hearing/comment-page-1/#comment-16556
Interesting camera technique. A series of stills, turn them into a panorama, and then scroll it. Notice – no mills are turning. I have never studied German, but I think the expression is “Mien Gott” —- what a disaster…..
Germany has a history of inviting disaster….Hitler brought aluminum overcast which begat the Berlin Wall.
The fall of the wall begat East German Trojan Horse Merkel.
C’mon, Deutschland, get it together.
Finally Hitler, was wondering how long it takes this time to mentioned him.
I look at that picture and I see enviro-porn. Kinda easy for some to turn a blind eye , unless you lived there and witnessed the debauchery of your neighbourhood.
Interesting that in the UK if anyone living local to a project complains they are branded as NIMBY’s as if this was a bad thing and their complaint should be discounted. Those not living close by, of course, tend to care much less and present much less opposition.
And not a word from the Eco-Wackos about how these wind turbines and ruining t he landscape maiming Birds and Bats and becoming a eyesore yet try to build a oil dercects and they will be in court getting some liberal actvist’s judge to block the project
I first visited Germany in 1987 and loved seeing the idyllic countryside dotted by the small villages. After several visits over the next decade or so I’ve only flown through Germany (Frankfurt, Munich) and could see from the air the destruction that has befallen the countryside with the vast numbers of these monstrosities. But I’ve also been seeing them here in the US while driving through western Kansas and Oklahoma and eastern Colorado.