ABC Radio National

Ockham's Razor





Date/Time 29 Mar 2017 7:25:38pm
Wind farms do kill birds especially birds of prey such as owls and eagles. They are of a poor design with low efficiency. They are not visible at night to frogmouths and owls. During the day the blades can move so fast they strike passing birds.
Also they emit low frequency vibrations for at least 2 Kms that can cause longterm illness to nearby residents. They are made overseas and usually are a tax dodge for some multinational and the only jobs we get are during construction and changing oil in gear boxes.
Don't even think about what happens when the catch fire, plenty of you tube videos showing this scary type of event.
They are not as efficient (with out tax breaks) and environmentally friendly as solar farms and individual house and factory solar panels. We do need to move to more sustainable energy sources, but the current generation of ugly and dangerous wind farms are not the answer.
Our local wind farm is ugly and produces energy for Sydney's useless desalination plant. It should have never happened. It is an ugly mistake that has a far more serious environmental impacts than the multinational companies who we subsidise for so called green electricity will admit.
