Comments on: Offshore Wind: How Europe Plans to Meet Clean Energy Goals

By: PlanetThoughts.org

PlanetThoughts.org — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:54:01 +0000

Craig – sorry to add this, as I just noticed your comment. Clean nuclear energy is a bad dream – it overheats the coolant water, affecting fish and other water life, it is non-renewable, expensive, and has a ticking bomb at the end, when the waste products HOPEFULLY can be disposed off into an unknown future with no bad effects, still radioactive many thousands of years from now.
Current windmills kill far fewer birds than originally smaller, faster moving designs. Killing a handful of birds through direct impact will be better than wiping out the biosphere through overheating and toxic wastes!

By: PlanetThoughts.org

PlanetThoughts.org — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:50:38 +0000

This is terrific… I just read about a town that is almost at 100% wind-generated power for 1,300 people (Rockport, Missouri) and now this master plan for Europe. Hopefully with all the real-world successes that wind is now racking up, the winds of change will be irresistible, blowing nuclear energy and coal energy out of the water.

By: craig hart

craig hart — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:18:50 +0000

Wind is nice, but it will kill a lot of birds, and bats, too many for my liking. Especially offshore wind, which will annihilate offshore birds. I think the EU should rather consider solar voltaic, and cellulosic ethonol, as well as nuclear, and hydrogen production from water using energy from solar voltaic or solar thermal. As soon as the “horses such as Iran, and North Korea” are pacified,or otherwise convinced of thier proper place in the 21st century, nuclear can begin it’s rennaisance in earnest.