Talk:Fairy Academy/@comment-204.236.153.78-20120206002603

The aounmt of oil we have here isn&#8217;t going to fully relieve us of our dependence on foreign oil no matter how much we pump out in the short term, and in the long term, we&#8217;re all going to run out. At that point, the country on top is going to be the one with the most invested in alternative energy &#8211; and we&#8217;re way behind on that front. As for the hazards associated with wind farms:First of all, people have occasionally been known to be killed by ice falling from skyscrapers and the like. Difference is, people routinely have to walk near those. As for birds, newer windmill designs seem to cut down on the incidence of associated bird deaths (the older models have smaller blades and rotate faster), but more to the point, there is a certain aounmt of danger to birds presented by a lot of things in our society. For example cars can hit them, and they run into windows and power lines. Moreover, the increase in bird mortality would seem to be offset somewhat by the decreased need for fossil fuels, and the pollution that results from them.All that aside, I don&#8217;t think anybody in their right mind is arguing that we try to engineer the economy around wind farms alone. The ideal thing would be some combination of various &quot;green&quot; energy sources, with a cautious use of nuclear energy to pick up whatever slack exists.