http://www.withouthotair.com/

interesting book about that subject

it makes no sence to argue here. Sure every way to produce energy has flaws...
You talk about dead birds at windmills.. i wonder how many fish died because of oil in the gulf of mexico now. And how many birds?

We can allways find arguments to discredit the opposition.

About your nuclear reactors, there was 3 mile island which almost was a real real bad accident. You had luck there.
What do we do with the nuclear waste? Atm we put it into some dark hole and let it there for the next generations to deal with it...
Pitty now there is running water into that holes...
I am from europe. I could not play in the sand for a year.. was not allowed to eat anything from outside when chernobyl happened.
So far i was way more effected by the negative effects of nuclear power then i was effected by wind generators.
Many windmills are around my hometown.. I never saw masses of dead birds.

"As for nuclear now, we have technologies now to take 99.999% of the radioactivity away. The remaining mass is no danger at all."

do we?

I think this would be the goal. Just to tap into a sufficient amount. Just need to keep improving the efficiency of photovoltaic cells

"The amount of energy trapped by photosynthesis is immense, approximately 100 terawatts:[3] which is about six times larger than the power consumption of human civilization.[4] "

Legitimate green energy concerns have been hijacked by those who want to use "green" policy as a means for attaining more power. Just as people are quick to point out the conflicts of interest that can exist when big business funds research, people need to be aware that government funding brings the same conflict.

Hey Johnny. If your research finds that regulating x could have benefits and that my agency is the best one to regulate it, I've got a boatload of cash to fund more research projects and keep you getting that professional salary for years! The increase in publications will get you raises and tenure! I hope your findings are to my liking!

I don't see any particular way to avoid conflicts of interest, as they come from all sides (business, government, and even personal bias), except our astute readings of the research themselves. Only in the discourse of studies refuting studies lies the truth. I hope you know how to read serious academic work. I'm sure all voters do and put in the time to know that they're not voting for bullshit... nnnnnope, we're enacting all kinds of bullshit right now. Ignorance is bliss until you end up with a Soviet standard of living. Spain, here we come! Thanks for the hints on how to ruin our economy by spending on "green jobs."

Ok to make it short, some parts of the oil actually sink down. there they get eaten by micro organisms which get eaten by for example fish. that way the toxic parts of the heavy oil become part of the ecological cycle. the fish may not die directlly, but slowly.

here at my city we have these windmills:
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/20695121.jpg

the national birdprotection thingy of brandenburg is recording all found dead birds close to windgenerators in whole germany since 1989.
So far 681 dead birds where recorded.
Some other bird expert is saying the number is too low because most corps simply never will be found (sounds not unlogical to me). He is expecting the real number  to be somewhere between 10000 and 100000 dead birds a year. With 20000 wingenerators installed in germany atm thats 0.5 - 5 dead birds each windgenerator.

"Various power companies are quoted as saying that dead bird cleanup constitutes the majority of their maintenance costs."

If this sentence is true its just one big argument that shows maintenance cost of windmills is super low.

"Yes, the technology was made in France in the late 90's. Now it's part of any Western Reactors being made I believe.

The Japanese made a Nuclear reactor that can fit in a 2 car garage and power a neighborhood. So safe they have no worries about it."

sry did understand you wrong (stupid english)
thought you said 99,999% of the nuclear waste can be destroyed
my bad

I thot I saw a puddy cat, I did I did saw a puddy cat.

It ated thr poor littel chopped birdy, bad puddy cat!

only read a small part about this.

i have read somewhere that the USA is busy with a new energy source.

Not sure what it is called, or how it works.
but from what i've read is that it uses lasers.

They aim lasers on something and it recreates a sunlike power. - this power will only be there for a milisecond or something. - the laser needs to recharge again. it takes 5 hours to do so.

the idea is to be able to recharge the laser faster and faster so they can use this sun like power more and more.
i dont have a source as its been a while since i read this.

i think it was called fussion ............  << something.

The building will be done in 2020. so it will take a while