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Shock new report lays out the full scale of environmental damage caused by onshore wind turbines

By Chris Morrison, posted 27 October 2025
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/10/27/shock-new-report-lays-out-the-full-scale-of-environmental-damage-caused-by-onshore-wind-turbines
https://zerohedge.com/energy/shock-new-report-lays-out-full-scale-environmental-damage-caused-onshore-wind-turbines
Fresh insights into the ecological devastation caused by onshore wind turbines around the world are contained in a shocking new paper published last month by a group of ecologists in Nature. The paper is paywalled and has attracted little mainstream media interest, but it highlights research that illustrates that the effect of utility-scale wind energy production “can be far reaching and sometimes have large and unexpected consequences for biodiversity”. An annual figure of around one million bats are killed in the countries with the highest number of turbines, but harmful effects are seen in many other parts of the ecosystem. The number of top predators such as jaguars, jungle cats and golden jackals can be changed by turbines in tropical forest gaps, leading to the “possibility for cascading effects” along similar latitudinal levels.
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Mass slaughter of bats and raptors is already known, but this new report casts fresh light on the cascading effects on the natural world of increasing numbers of giant wind turbines. That said, the report admits that biodiversity impacts have been documented for only a few small taxa, but the impacts are “not negligible”. Proponents of wind power often claim that wind energy's impacts on biodiversity will be less than climate change, it is noted. The authors find this “plausible”, but the assumption is said to be “untested”.
Yet another untested assumption driving the destructive madness of Net Zero, others may conclude.

"Experiment Gets An F-Minus": Nantucket Residents Fume Over Broken Wind Turbine Blade Polluting Beaches

By Tyler Durden, posted Aug 14 2024
https://zerohedge.com/commodities/experiment-gets-f-minus-nantucket-residents-fume-over-broken-wind-turbine-blade
"The great Nantucket experiment gets an F-minus," Kevin O'Leary, chairman of O'Leary Ventures, told Bloomberg, referring to the offshore turbine failure that resulted in broken fiberglass littering the pristine beaches of Nantucket last month. The turbine is part of the offshore Vineyard Wind project.
O'Leary continued, "It's not a golden example of success in wind turbines, that's for sure."
The federal government ordered Vineyard Wind's project south of Nantucket last month to halt construction and electricity generation following the blade malfunction.

https://zerohedge.com/markets/nantucket-beaches-closed-after-massive-wind-turbine-blade-fail-scatters-fiberglass-shards
Nantucket residents are watching their pristine beaches transform into "waste dumps" filled with floating debris and sharp fiberglass shards. This prompted officials to close beaches this week after a massive offshore wind turbine experienced a catastrophic failure.
Nantucket is merely a casualty of the Biden-Harris administration's push to 'greenify' the US economy with unreliable wind and solar. The admin has pledged to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.

https://bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-13/nantucket-beach-turbine-pollution-puts-offshore-energy-in-spotlight?srnd=homepage-asia
By Cam Baker and Josh Saul, posted August 13, 2024
Shattered Wind Blade Puts Nantucket on Frontlines of a Clean-Energy Fight
After Vineyard Wind's broken blade polluted Nantucket beaches, some locals feel the wealthy Massachusetts island has become a casualty in the war against climate change.
Weeks after a busted wind turbine washed onto Nantucket shores, residents of this wealthy Massachusetts enclave are still angry. Some even liken the accident to an oil spill.

Generating green hydrogen from biomass, an abundant renewable energy source

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-green-hydrogen-biomass-abundant-renewable.html
Posted July 13, 2022
An innovative technology to produce hydrogen from biomass has been developed by a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The team was led by S. Dasappa, Professor at the Center for Sustainable Technologies, and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Research at IISc.
The process consists of two steps. In the first step, biomass is converted into syngas-a hydrogen-rich fuel gas mixture-in a novel reactor using oxygen and steam. In the second step, pure hydrogen is generated from syngas using an indigenously developed low-pressure gas separation unit.

Microbes can produce electricity out of thin air. Scientists have finally figured out how to harvest it

https://bigthink.com/the-present/air-gen
By Robby Berman, posted February 21, 2020
A microbial organism pulls electricity from water in the air
Hidden in the mud along the banks of Washington D.C.'s Potomac River may be a profound new source of electricity
The microbe makes nanowires that produce a charge from water vapor in ordinary air
Already capable of powering small electronics, it appears that larger-scale power generation is within reach

Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped

By Kris de decker, posted July 12 2021
https://notechmagazine.com/2021/07/inventor-harvests-methane-gas-from-ditches-and-ponds-to-power-his-moped.html
Gijs Schalkx harvests this methane from ponds - by hand - and uses it to power his moped