{"id":63183,"date":"2026-03-15T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63183"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:29:56","slug":"environmentally-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63183","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally Friendly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, WattsUpWithThat<\/a> posted an article about wind turbines. It seems that they are not as environmentally friendly as we have been told.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Just this week, David\u00a0posted a report to CFACT.org<\/a>\u00a0on a hearing in the House of Representatives on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act,\u00a0which was designed to protect and preserve our birds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An important topic was the accidental killing of birds, which David explains is called \u201cincidental taking\u201d by the bureaucrats.\u00a0As David wryly observes, \u201cIt is not incidental to the bird, just to the operation of the facility.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you surprised that the hearing somehow managed to skip, bypass, or outright ignore the massive \u201cincidental taking\u201d of birds and bats by wind turbines?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not only do wind turbines strike eagles, hawks, birds, and bats out of the sky, once you erect them,\u00a0many species abandon the area<\/a>,\u00a0never to return.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abundant, affordable electricity is essential to human well-being in a modern society.\u00a0Wind and solar increase costs, weaken the grid, require 24\/7 backup from reliable sources, and impose a far dirtier environmental footprint than their advocates would have you know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Intermittent wind and solar should not get a pass on environmental rules that are zealously enforced against efficient energy sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past I have posted articles (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>) about the fact that wind turbine blades are not biodegradable and are filling up landfills around America. All that was accomplished by the push toward green energy was to boost the economy of China. At some point green energy might make sense, but we need to do a lot of engineering first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, WattsUpWithThat posted an article about wind turbines. It seems that they are not as environmentally friendly as we have been told. The article reports: Just this week, David\u00a0posted a report to CFACT.org\u00a0on a hearing in the House of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[317,19229,12095,16710],"class_list":["post-63183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-green-energy","tag-migratory-bird-treaty-act","tag-wattsupwiththat","tag-wind-turbines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63184,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63183\/revisions\/63184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}