The Day

Stop adding windmills, instead go nuclear

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President Obamain his quest for energy independen­ce wants to impose a rule that would allow windmill operation for 30 years and with thousands of windmill generators planned it may well cause the death of thousands more golden and bald eagles and millions of migrating bats, so essential to our agricultur­e industry and Mexico and South America’s rich guano fertilizer business.

This has put President Obama at odds with environmen­talists.

Now how necessary are windmill generators in the total energy mix? How essential are raptors such as golden and bald eagles and bats to our well being?

Fortunatel­y the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperativ­e was formed in 2004. Together with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of Energy, it has been provided some research funds, but no viable solution has been found.

Having worked on nuclear submarines for 34 years I am acutely aware of the advantages of it. Nuclear power isbeingneg­lectedbyth­eUnitedSta­tes. Wouldn’t it be prudent to consider using more nuclear power instead of windmills? William H. Ezell New London

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