{"id":2484,"date":"2008-08-19T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2008-08-19T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:55:25","slug":"windmills-and-envirostupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Windmills and envirostupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving through Ontario in the middle of the night, I didn&#8217;t get to sightsee much, but on the way back, man, are there a bunch of damned wind farms. Seems eevry farmer has a couple on his property- there must  be soem huge tax breaks or something. <\/p>\n<p>One way or another, I am happy to see something alternative being developed, but I&#8217;m all too painfully aware of the environmental impact this causes. Dumbasses. Tip speed on those rotors can be a couple hundred miles an hour, and they shred any bird unwary enough to wander into range. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2483\" height=400 alt=birdkiller.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/birdkiller.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For scale, each of those blades is about 100 feet long- in other words, an over length flatbed semi, for each blade. <\/p>\n<p>hey, I like alternatives, but as DenBeste shows, this is a meaningless thing that will do more harm, overall, than good, and it&#8217;s expensive to build. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving through Ontario in the middle of the night, I didn&#8217;t get to sightsee much, but on the way back, man, are there a bunch of damned wind farms. Seems eevry farmer has a couple on his property- there must be soem huge tax breaks or something. One way or another, I am happy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}