{"id":29518,"date":"2018-10-26T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29518"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:28:43","slug":"rethinking-wind-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rethinking-wind-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Wind Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/rethinking-wind-energy\/article23828827.ece\">Rethinking Wind Energy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wind energy; Developing New Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Global scientific research reveals that generation of wind energy has high indirect impact on the ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0India has a renewable energy target of 175GW by 2022 and wind energy is one of the most popular renewable energy technologies in India<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wind farms are mostly located in the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wind farms need large forest land diversion and denudation and also fragments forest land through access roads and transmission lines<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It also increases the chances of forest fires<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There has also been growing evidence that generation of wind energy has adverse impact on the ecosystem. Examples:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Various researches have shown that in the Pacific islands, bat activity is 20% lower in areas with windmills.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In Texas, there has been a 77% decrease in redhead ducks in coastal ponds with wind farms<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In Rajasthan, transmission lines and spinning blades of wind turbines have increased the mortality rate of the Great Indian Bustard (Designated as Critically Endangered in IUCN Red List)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Studies by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have revealed wind-farms result in a decrease in population of birds, rodents and smaller animals. Lower levels of predation have increased lizard population, resulting in increased competition and decrease in consumable resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In India, the guidelines for wind energy do not focus on the mitigation of the impact on wildlife.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With the growing evidence on indirect impact of windmills on ecosystem, the government should formulate policies to combat the effects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rethinking Wind Energy Wind energy; Developing New Technology News: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Global scientific research reveals that generation of wind energy has high indirect impact on the ecosystem Important Facts: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0India has a renewable energy target of 175GW by 2022 and wind energy is one of the most popular renewable energy technologies in India \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wind farms are mostly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rethinking-wind-energy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rethinking Wind Energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}