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BREAKING: Large Air Spill At Wind Farm. No Threats Reported.

"So far our 100-acre windfarm produces enough electricity to power three city blocks - and we're just getting started!"
 
I don't understand wind farms...where are the animals? I don't see any barns. Are they animals trained to fly? Or do they float, wafted about by those big fans? That's cruel. Think of the chickens, laying eggs while hovering hundreds of feet up. Think of the cows, dropping milk, and butter, and ice cream, and other dairy products out of their behinds, swooping around in a panic trying to escape from Flock of Seagulls. They can't run, run so far away, if they are bobbing around in midair. And what about the horses, and goats, and wombats, and triceratopses, and all the other farm animals we learned about in kindergarten? According to the See-and-Say, the donkey goes "hee-haw", not "oh my god help me I'm going to fall oh god I'm going to die please please please no no!" Donkeys are notoriously acrophobic, as we learned in the Renaissance in that unfortunate incident with the Archbishop of Wurtzburgen. I think that wind farms are inherently cruel to animals, as well as highly impractical, and should be torn down and replaced with sensible energy methods like turning long-dead ancient animals into some kind of poisonous soup which can be extracted by Beverly Hillbillies and then put into cars. Or, we can switch from regular oil to Oil of Olay, or Lorenzo's Oil, or Midnight Oil.
 
You'd think that, contra oil wells, wind farms would be a classic case of "no risk, no reward", but in fact environmentalists would have you believe even wind farms have a downside.

So not only is there no reward--in the form of cost-effective electrical power--but there's still a risk.

I know there's no such thing as something for nothing in this world, but wind farms are pretty much nothing for something. At least oil wells give something for something.
 
As I recall the Kennedy's were opposing the offshore wind farm in Massachusetts.
 
I can't drive a mile out of town in any direction without driving into a wind farm. The farmers love them and the only complaint is all the dead birds at the bases.
 
I can't drive a mile out of town in any direction without driving into a wind farm. The farmers love them and the only complaint is all the dead birds at the bases.
Meat for their pigs, if they collect them before they fester ...
 
I can't drive a mile out of town in any direction without driving into a wind farm. The farmers love them and the only complaint is all the dead birds at the bases.
AFAIK, a complete fallacy. Aka, tall tales and true from the farm!
 
I believe this is Colbert report joke...

Zep - Of course there are lots of birds. They get sucked in my the windmills. ;)
 
Must say I've never seen any dead birds around a windfarm, though maybe crows get the corpses. I'd expect most crows to have enough sense not to fly into a propellor.

That said, I detest the damn things myself.
 
Must say I've never seen any dead birds around a windfarm, though maybe crows get the corpses. I'd expect most crows to have enough sense not to fly into a propellor.

That said, I detest the damn things myself.

The crows? *runs and hides*

That be said:D: Wind farms may be a good way of getting electricity, but they sure are an eyesore when placed in rural regions. They stand out way too much due to their nature.
 
The crows? *runs and hides*

That be said:D: Wind farms may be a good way of getting electricity, but they sure are an eyesore when placed in rural regions. They stand out way too much due to their nature.

I keep hearing this but I think they look fine - nice in fact. Certainly a damn site nicer than an oil refinery or an oil fired power station. Impressive up close and like kids toys from a distance - what's to dislike?

I don't even think they ruin the look of the countryside.

Indeed, everyone I speak to thinks they're cool. Must be the company I keep...
 
Those windmill things were all over the place in western Texas and eastern New Mexico when I drove through there last summer. It was weird. Miles from nowhere, empty landscape, except for giant white windmills. They seemed randomly placed, just one or two here and there, maybe a row of ten on some small hills.

Even weirder, there were oil wells dotted around the place, too. You could see three oil wells going, and behind them in the distance loomed those wind things.
 
I've seen enough of the dead birds myself to think otherwise.

Better than the wind farms in Transylvania. Heaps of undead birds, and careless vampires. Just because you can shapeshift into bat form doesn't mean you know how to use echolocation.
 
As I understand it its bats not birds that are having problems. Something to do with the changing air-pressure around the blades.

Please don't ask me to back this up as I heard it of that lovely Stephen Fry chap on the telly and he's not one to tell fibs :blush:
 

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