Re: E-M:/ Clouds on wind's horizon

[Roger Kuhlman <rokuhlman@yahoo.com>]

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Enviro-Mich message from Roger Kuhlman <rokuhlman@yahoo.com>
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America already uses way too much energy. Wind power
does not help this problem one bit. We need to reduce
energy consumption through energy reduction, energy
conservation, and energy efficiency. A major part of
reducing our energy consumption is stopping American
population growth. If we keep on adding three million
more people to our country each year, energy demand is
going to rise. Today America has less than 5% of the
world's population but uses about 25% of the world's
energy. That is insane and can not continue.

Close to 90% of our population growth is due to legal
and illegal immigration. We can stabilize our
population by ending illegal immigration and reducing
legal immigration to a reasonable level of 100,000 per
year. At this level the size of the American
population will eventually stabilize and we will not
continue adding three million more people per year.
Without the current yearly major population growth,
strategies of energy conservation and energy
efficiency will have a better chance of succeeding.

Roger Kuhlman
Ann Arbor, Michigan

--- jmgear <jmgear@acd.net> wrote:

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> Enviro-Mich message from jmgear <jmgear@acd.net>
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>   from the March 02, 2006 edition - 
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0302/p14s01-sten.html
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> Yellow light for a 'green' energy source
> By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian
> Science Monitor
> 
> Soaring on the wings of new wind-turbine technology,
> tax breaks, and 
> rising fossil fuel costs, the US wind-power growth
> picture looks great - 
> except to Edward Arnett, a wildlife biologist who
> sees a dead bat in it 
> - many thousands of dead bats, actually.
> 
> ...
> Dead bats are just one of a growing list of concerns
> that threaten to 
> tarnish wind power's reputation as one of the
> nation's most promising 
> renewable energy sources. Concerns over the
> potential impact on 
> migratory songbirds, aesthetic issues like the
> "shutter effect" of 
> flickering turbine blade shadows, and "view shed"
> damage from turbines 
> on scenic skylines are growing, observers say.
> ...
> 
> Full HTML version of this story which may include
> photos, graphics, and 
> related links
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