- Jul 20, 2016
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I knew about the blades on the wind turbines killing off birds, but the insects are new info for me. Food chain, folks. Plants need insects for pollination. Birds need them for food. And up the food chain we go until nothing is left. Apparently, this problem has been known for 20 years, but either no one has snapped to the bigger picture, or it was the intent all along.
In fact, so many insects are being squashed by these blades that it is leading to significant energy losses. Every insect weighing about 0.1 grams means that all these insects are adding 1200 tons of weight on the turbines, meaning that they are loosing large amounts of potential energy they could produce.
It is actually so bad that a study done all the way back in 2001 found that the dead insects on a wind turbine could reduce energy production by a whopping 50%
There are even companies out there that specialize in cleaning the wind turbines from dead insects using cranes and helicopters. So we need helicopters driven by fossil fuel in order to keep the wind turbines in working order.
Wind turbines killing 1.2 TRILLION insects a year
Where are all the vegans and environmentalists?
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