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Wind turbine disposal has a large environmental footprint. Turbine blades are made of fiberglass, which does not decompose and cannot be burned.
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New documentary proves building offshore wind farms is responsible for the increase in whale deaths off the U.S. East Coast since 2016
“It is true that renewable energy developments like solar and wind farms (along with the power lines to connect them to the grid) can impact negatively on birds and other wildlife, but compared to other human driven causes of bird mortality the impact remains small,” noted Aldina Franco, an avian ecologist at the University of East Anglia.
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Wind turbines in the US are made of toxic materials that pollute the environment, are mostly built in Germany, and will not pay off their manufacturing costs within their lifetimes.
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Helicopters are using chemicals made from fossil fuels to defrost wind turbines; frosted wind turbines are responsible for blackouts in Texas; “the reason your power is/was out is wind energy's fault.”
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Harvard study finds that wind turbines create MORE global warming than the fossil fuels they eliminate
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A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.