President Donald Trump went on another rant about wind energy in a speech to the conservative youth group Turning Point USA over the weekend, Business Insider reported on Monday.
One of his claims, as he slammed the Green New Deal proposed by progressive Democrats, was that building wind turbines causes a large carbon footprint, a common reason cited against the continued construction of wind farms.
However, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the electricity generated from wind turbines avoided an estimated 200 million tons of carbon pollution and most wind power plants repay their own carbon footprints within six months of operation.
Trump concentrated much of his criticism on how wind turbines kill so many birds, saying "You want to see a bird graveyard?... Go under a windmill someday. You'll see more birds than you've ever seen ever in your life."
While wind turbines do kill about 300,000 birds annually, a study has shown that this is a tiny fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million deaths from collisions with cellphone and radio towers and the more than a billion deaths from cats, USA Today reported.
Trump has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about turbines to criticize the renewable energy source, most notably saying in April that the noise from wind turbines “causes cancer,” according to the Independent.
However, the American Cancer Society said it was “unaware of any credible evidence linking the noise from windmills to cancer.”
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