I just read an article about a proposed wind farm off S. Padre Island in TX.This sounds like a good idea to me. We are continually looking for new sources of renewable energy aren't we? The wind is a renewable resource. This is not a new technology.....it's been around for very long time. You didn't think that the windmills in the Netherlands were just to make the postcards pretty did you? They were historically used to grind grain or pump water from low-lying land. They greatly accelerated shipbuilding in the Netherlands, and were instrumental in keeping its polders dry.
Enter the environmentalists who say the spinning blades could kill countless rare birds that migrate through the area each year on their way to and from winter grounds in Mexico and Central America.I don't want to sound cold.....but the reality is we NEED renewable energy and this is a very important source for the future. It order for this to be effective we have to place these turbines where they will get the most steady winds. This location was not picked at random, it serves the need for steady offshore breezes.
People....think and be logical....not emotional. True....at first I'm sure it will confuse the migrating birds that the environmentalists are concerned about. Notice I said at first! All animals on God's green earth are adaptable. It's call natural order, the strong survive. I can't change the way things are and neither can you. We are at this time and place in human development. We NEED alternate energy sources and in order to accomplish this there will be changes.
Things cannot always stay the same. The birds will figure out in a migration or two not to fly low enough to be injured by the blades. I don't remember any group protesting the development of airplanes because they had spinning blades do you? Birds have been known to fly into propellers on airplanes.Everything adapts.....the creatures on the earth adapt except when hunted into extinction, which I don't approve of.....but this is different!
Think about it!
2 comments:
wind farm Yo soy uno de esos...vuelo con el viento no quiero que me atrapen y corro y corro.
Tu artÃculo muy bueno
Here! Here! I heard about this issue months back and I nearly had to reach at the back of my eyesockets just to re-align my eyeballs from rolling so far back! I meanm REALLY! As much as I love them 'enviromentalists' just like any other 'association' to 'any right' people can certainly get narrow minded and LOOSE sight of the BIGGER Picture!
We are all God's creatures, yaddah, yaddah yaddah .. and I am sure that God or whatever entity that BE and IS, will understand if a few migrating birds (possibly hundreds) will be killed by the turbines. Heck, as I see it, if they are so dumb as to not manoevre around the huge spinning turbines, then ... dumbtity dummm.
hahaah I love the comment about the airplanes!
Yay! Another blog that forces people to THINK and see differently! We will SO get along!
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