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Wind power is killing a lot of eagles. The federal government is tracking this destruction, but it is all a big secret. We have a right to know what is happening to our eagles. //
By David Wojick
Published April 3, 2025
Imagine there is an industry product that is killing thousands a year and the number is growing. The government is tracking it closely, while keeping the data secret in order to protect the product. Outrageous, right? But that is exactly the case with wind power killing eagles.
Every wind-killed eagle found at an industrial wind site is quickly reported to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Every year each site also submits an annual kill report to FWS. None of this data is publicly available.
The FWS eagle kill data is all a big government secret designed to protect the wind industry from public outrage. This has to stop.
Power lines, though, are not a major source of eagle fatalities. The big "green energy" windmills are, though - or, at least, we think they are. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, whose job it is to keep this data, won't release the numbers.
https://heartland.org/opinion/the-feds-are-hiding-the-eagle-death-data/
Every wind-killed eagle found at an industrial wind site is quickly reported to the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Every year each site also submits an annual kill report to FWS. None of this data is publicly available.
The FWS eagle kill data is all a big government secret designed to protect the wind industry from public outrage. This has to stop.
The public has a right to know about all these eagle kills. In addition, this data would support research on ways to reduce the killing. For example, it has been suggested that painting the blades black would help the eagles avoid the blades. In fact, there are a lot of technologies that could be studied given comprehensive kill data. //
The only possible reason I can think of is that the numbers of eagles and other birds killed by these contraptions is shockingly high, higher than any of us may have suspected. We should note as well that, were you to come across one of these dead eagles and pluck a feather from the carcass, you would be subject to criminal charges and a hefty fine - but the builders of these windmills are in no way held responsible for these eagle and other raptor deaths.
And where is the Audobon Society in all this?
The price of electricity in German soared from 17 cents per kilowatt hour in April 2020 to $4.69 in August 2022. It is now $1.40—or 8 times what Germans once paid. //
Germany's electricity prices have experienced an increase in the latter half of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, reaching an average of 140.42 euros per megawatt-hour in February 2025. This marks a notable decrease from the record high of over 469 euros per megawatt-hour in August 2022, yet remains above pre-pandemic levels. The ongoing volatility in energy prices continues to impact German households and businesses, reflecting broader trends across Europe's energy landscape.
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Montgomery County Public Schools’ District in Maryland Turns to Diesel After Attempt to Convert Bus Fleet to Electric Proves Disastrous
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School District Turns to Diesel After Attempt to Convert Bus Fleet to Electric Proves Disastrous -...
1:39 PM · Aug 1, 2024 //
Mark-0
7 hours ago
They should have had one of their students do the math...
Estimated savings of 6,500 gallons of diesel per day x $4/gal (probably cheaper than $4 since they should be able to buy at wholesale prices and maybe without taxes). That's $26,000 saved per day x 180 school days per year, or about $4.68 million saved per year. They spent about $170 Million for these buses. They breakeven in about 36 years, assuming the buses last that long without any additional cost (yeah, right!) I wouldn't take that investment!
anon-r77o Mark-0
5 hours ago
And they never add in the extra cost for electricity to charge them all. //
KJSpeed
8 hours ago
So the "green" yellow school busses are putting the school/county/city budgets in the red?
PJM’s capacity auction has competitively secured resources to meet the RTO reliability requirement for the 2025/2026 Delivery Year. Auction prices were significantly higher across the RTO due to decreased electricity supply caused primarily by a large number of generator retirements, combined with increased electricity demand and implementation of FERC-approved market reforms.
While the overall resource mix is adequate, two zones cleared just short of their reserve requirement, resulting in prices being set at the zonal cap.
The higher prices send a clear investment signal across PJM’s 13 states and the District of Columbia. //
The auction cleared a diverse mix of resources, including 48% of gas, 21% of nuclear, 18% of coal, 1% of solar, 1% of wind, 4% of hydro, 5% of demand response and 2% from other resources. //
The amount of supply resources in the auction decreased again this year, continuing the trend from recent auctions and underlining PJM’s stated concerns (PDF) about generation resources facing pressure to retire without replacement capacity being built quickly enough to replace them. Approximately 6,600 MW of generation have retired or have must-offer exceptions (signaling intent to retire) compared with the generators that offered in the 2024/2025 Base Residual Auction (BRA).
Meanwhile, the peak load forecast for the 2025/2026 Delivery Year has increased from 150,640 MW for the 2024/2025 BRA to 153,883 MW for the 2025/2026 Delivery Year. Additionally, FERC-approved market reforms contributed to tightening the supply and demand balance by better estimating the impact of extreme weather on load and more accurately determining resource reliability value.
These reliability concerns associated with reducing supply and increasing demand are not limited to PJM; the North American Electric Reliability Corporation has identified elevated risk to the reliability of the electrical grid for much of the country outside of PJM. To facilitate the entry of new resources, PJM is implementing its FERC-approved generation interconnection reform, with approximately 72,000 MW of resources expected to be processed in 2024 and 2025. //
The auction produced a price of $269.92/MW-day for much of the PJM footprint, compared to $28.92/MW-day for the 2024/2025 auction. Capacity auction prices fluctuate annually based on the need for investment in generation resources.
This year’s auction procured 135,684 MW for the period of June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026. The total Fixed Resource Requirement (FRR) obligation is an additional 10,886 MW for a total of 146,570 MW.
The total procured capacity in the auction and resource commitments under FRR represents an 18.5% reserve margin, compared to a 20.4% reserve margin for the 2024/2025 Delivery Year.
Otpkr2 coyotewise
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Sorry, but that just won't wash in terms of facts. "Alcohol" drag engines actually run on methanol with a significant percentage of "additives" to increase the volatility, thus, energy release. In the parlance it is known as "moon juice".
Auto fuel is ethanol and an "extender" of petroleum based gasoline with some noticeable deficiencies - primary among those being corrosivity to metal engines and parts. Ethanol is a boondoggle of epic proportions. So called "bio-diesel" is similar in terms of effective fuels for actual usage. Both are a kind of an equivalent to Kwanza - a government invention without merit, foundation, or actual substance. Both are great ways to obfuscate useless and expensive government initiatives with unduly loud claims and unicorn flatulence.
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