http://toryaardvark.com/2011/08/13/wind-...
One has moving parts and one does not. No they are not the same. As a matter of fact they are a lot more like solar panels. The Easter Island heads stand there motionless, collecting radiant energy.
Wind turbines are one part of the electric power mix, and in some areas that can be quite a large fraction, but they will never be the main electricity source in the world.
He seems a bit naive, to me, and honestly I was never a big fan of the Gaia Hypothesis--it seems more like religion than science.
No.
But obvious science illiterates, like global warming deniers, won't be able to see the difference.
No. The windmills kill birds!
I am James Lovelock, scientist and author, known as the originator of Gaia theory, a view of the Earth that sees it as a self-regulating entity that keeps the surface environment always fit for life… I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood and misapplied. We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs. We need take care that the spinning windmills do not become like the statues on Easter Island, monuments of a failed civilisation. – Bishop Hill, James Lovelock, 12 December 2012 (in a letter noted by Phillip Bratby)
