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Wind power outfits can’t guarantee power when you need it, but their turbines rarely miss an opportunity to slaughter birds or bats silly enough to enter their bloody kill zone.

The wind power cult has no difficulty in justifying the destruction of pristine landscapes; the dismemberment of once cohesive, rural communities; the creation of toxic waste lands in China (where the rare earths essential to wind turbines are processed); power prices that punish the poorest and most vulnerable in society; and barely blink at the pointless slaughter of millions upon millions of birds and bats, across the globe.

A German study has exposed the fact that the number of bats belted into oblivion by these things is magnitudes greater than originally estimated by wind industry-controlled surveys. The report suggests that Germany’s 30,000 turbines are wiping out more than 200,000 bats each year, which means the global total…