{"id":4484,"date":"2011-08-16T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T01:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/californias-sad-energy-trade-off\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T01:41:06","slug":"californias-sad-energy-trade-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/californias-sad-energy-trade-off\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Sad Energy Trade Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wind-farm.jpg' title='wind-farm.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wind-farm.jpg' alt='wind-farm.jpg' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>California&#8217;s Greenbat politicians think that burning fossil fuel will destroy the planet, so what do they do? Trade off having wind power in favor of destroying many of nature&#8217;s flying creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this double standard. California Politicians are balking at the installation of a solar power site in the desert because it endangers tortoises and other wildlife. Their hypocrisy is so thick, it probably pollutes the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/greenbat.php\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/08\/16\/energy-in-america-dead-birds-unintended-consequence-wind-power-development\/\">From William La Jeunesse of Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As California attempts to divorce itself from fossil-fueled electricity, it may be trading one environmental sin for another &#8212; although you don&#8217;t hear state officials admitting it.<\/p>\n<p>Wind power is the fastest growing component in the state&#8217;s green energy portfolio, but wildlife advocates say the marriage has an unintended consequence: dead birds, including protected species of eagles, hawks and owls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/08\/16\/energy-in-america-dead-birds-unintended-consequence-wind-power-development\/\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s Greenbat politicians think that burning fossil fuel will destroy the planet, so what do they do? Trade off having wind power in favor of destroying&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-critters","category-greenbats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}