Tom Harris: The environmental case against wind and solar power | Sheila Gunn Reid

The Pros and Cons of Solar and Wind Energy. There is an environmental price to be paid that far outweighs the benefits of these technologies. Not many are discussing the loss of of thousands of birds and bats. Not many are discussing the back up energy sources that still must be created to support power networks when the wind dies or the lack of sunlight in northern latitudes. Let's start discussing the real price of replacing reliable fossil fuel sources of electrical energy with these unreliable sources that still require fossil fuel backup generation.