[discostu]

It's not BS, it's just number games. 22,000 birds sounds like a lot. But the windmills have been there 20 years, that's roughly 1100 birds a year. With 7000 windmills that means 1 windmill takes out 1 bird about every 6 1/2 years. No way you'll get piles of corpses at that rate, so they wait 20 years for the numbers to look big.

[wayoverontheright]

It's not BS, it's just number games. 22,000 birds sounds like a lot. But the windmills have been there 20 years, that's roughly 1100 birds a year. With 7000 windmills that means 1 windmill takes out 1 bird about every 6 1/2 years. No way you'll get piles of corpses at that rate, so they wait 20 years for the numbers to look big.

Greens really expose their real agenda with this one. They lie about this because they're really trying to avoid any success which would prevent them from saying "the sky is falling". I don't believe wind power would ever do more than supplement energy from fossil fuel, but greens are notoriously ignorant of these things, and they apparently fear it would work.

As to windmills killing birds, I can't believe there wouldn't be some light or sound emitting widget which would cause the birds to avoid these things, I own a body shop and in 15 years we have never worked on a deer hit when the car had deer whistles mounted on the front bumper. They emit a sound which deer apparently intensely dislike, AND THEY WORK.