{{cquote| A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons.}}
{{cquote| A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons.}}
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Landscape, seascape wildlife costs are a major downside to power from wind. Eagles, bats, birds of all kinds ar killed in the thousands by wind blades. Their rotting carcasses litter the ground below. In Ontario [[Canada]], every turbine destroys 3 acres of land, roughly 21,000 acres of farmland. <ref>[http://www.windontario.ca/, Wind Ontario]</ref>
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Landscape, seascape wildlife costs are a major downside to power from wind. Eagles, bats, birds of all kinds are killed in the thousands by wind blades. Their rotting carcasses litter the ground below. In Ontario [[Canada]], every turbine destroys 3 acres of land, roughly 21,000 acres of farmland. <ref>[http://www.windontario.ca/, Wind Ontario]</ref>