Coal & Gas Emissions Are 1500–3000× The Mass Of Waste Wind Turbine Blades
What problems do the wind turbine blades cause for human health and the environment? Virtually none. They are intentionally mostly chemically inert.
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Adventures In Anti-Renewables PR: North Carolina Duke Energy Solar Edition
A North State Journal article on Duke Energy and solar was an anti-renewables PR hit piece funded by anti-renewables fossil fuel industry money in an outlet that is a right-wing broadsheet that pretends to have journalist standards. Yet it pretended to be otherwise. That’s the anti-renewables disinformation campaign in a nutshell.
Win-Win This Fall: Business Climate & Climate Business
If we can credit a spate of reports this fall, the climate change discussion has begun to move toward common—and more mutually profitable—ground. Decisionmakers have begun to think about climate business: economic and climate action together. Treehuggers, this isn’t just something the Fortune 100 has cooked up to distract gullible … [continued]
Wind Farms Might Affect House Prices After All
The impact of wind farms on the price of houses in proximity has been an issue of hot contention for years now, with advocate groups on both sides of the issue claiming the high scientific ground with competing reports and mounds of anecdotal evidence to boot. A new study conducted … [continued]
How Many Studies Will It Take Before People Believe Wind Farms Don’t Harm Property Values?
Nine major and statistically reliable studies covering roughly 270,000 property transactions by different respected and independent organizations in three different countries spread over fifteen years have found no correlation between operating wind turbines and negative property values (in fact, three found slight but statistically insignificant improvements). Another low reliability study … [continued]
Calling Anti-Renewables Campaigners NIMBYs Is Often Inaccurate And Always Unproductive
NIMBY — Not In My Back Yard — is a nice crisp acronym and gets bandied about a lot when discussing opposition to wind energy and other renewables. But it is inadequate as a categorization of the various people fighting against broader penetration of renewables in energy grids worldwide. More … [continued]
