Windmills have been touted as ‘clean energy’. Meaning that there are minimal consequences to the environment. But that’s very far from the truth. The fact that most parts of a windmill are not recyclable, the fact that the power they generate does not equal the power it took to build them, and the fact that wildlife kills are rampant mean that truly, windmills are dirty energy.
They (government and lackeys) keep trying to put windmills offshore. But studies are showing that there are some very real hits to the ocean environment with windmills:
Wind farms generate “an increase in sediment carbon in deeper areas of the southern North Sea … and decreased dissolved oxygen inside an area with already low oxygen concentration.”
The resultant changes in nutrient concentration could start “a cause-effect chain that translates into changes in primary production and effectively alters the food chain.”
Further:
the British Trust for Ornithology found “a reduction in annual adult [bird] survival of up to 5% following the construction of an offshore wind farm.”
The reports note that there are unknown effects of windmills too. But yet they are still popping up like a fungus on land.
If the effects on ocean life are so extreme, what are they doing on land??
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