https://energytransition.org/2016/12/canadas-first-100-renewable-energy-community-project/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://energytransition.org/2016/12/canadas-first-100-renewable-energy-community-project/#comment-5042 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:46:10 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=11789#comment-5042 @ Clee: There is a paper ( Sovacool 2009) that shows that the pollution of coal power plants causes much more bird deaths per GWh than wind power. So replacing coal power by wind power indeed saves birds!

]]> https://energytransition.org/2016/12/canadas-first-100-renewable-energy-community-project/#comment-5041 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 23:01:25 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=11789#comment-5041 I sometimes suspect the wind turbines protect more birds than they kill by preserving the land against encroaching suburbs, thus protecting nesting sites and feeding grounds.

]]> https://energytransition.org/2016/12/canadas-first-100-renewable-energy-community-project/#comment-5040 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:47:05 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=11789#comment-5040 This is great news.
That is how Energiewende started in Germany: farmers setting up wind turbines.
(And farmers have always harvested energy: grain, oil, sugar, grass; electricity is just another leg to stand on.)
Keep it growing!

]]> https://energytransition.org/2016/12/canadas-first-100-renewable-energy-community-project/#comment-5039 Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:32:11 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=11789#comment-5039 Interesting, wind turbines as farmer’s defense against encroaching suburbs, a sort of reverse application of the Bavarian 10H rule!

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