Not so much unintended as just poorly thought out...

[alexpgp]

Via The Huffington Post:

Low-flow toilets sounded like a good ecoconservative concept. But, because they do not provide enough water to push through waste, there is a stinking build-up of sludge in toilets in San Francisco where they are widely used. Now, the cost for de-stinking the system will run $14 milliion (not to mention the $100 million squandered on setting up the low-flow systems).

This probably ought to be filed with the statistic that about one bird is killed every minute, on the average, by wind turbines.

Cheers...

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

And the percentage contribution of wind energy to the total energy used in this country (to the nearest percent)? - 0 -

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

U.S. wind power installed capacity now exceeds 43,460 MW and supplies 3% of the nation's electricity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_United_States)

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the low-energy traffic lights they installed here a year or two back. They save money!

They also get covered in snow and easily obscured, without the heat the old hot lamps put out. The city was talking about installing heaters on some of the traffic signals ...