Spanish wind farms produced the energy equivalent of 200,000 barrels of petrol on November 1 – which if laid out in a row would stretch from Malaga to Granada.
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That is great BUT is the cost to wildlife too high. If you do a search for “birds and windmills spain” you will see that many sources including SEO (the spanish RSPB) estimate between 6 and 18 million birds and bats are being killed each year in Spain by wind turbines. There are youtube videos of Vultures being hit and injured.