[Zeroisanumber]

Can't we just get a few thousand of those "Scary eye" baloons?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Ping without comment or even reading it.

[Bahbah]

Bird cuisinarts. LOL. Following in the footsteps of the Bassomatic.

[UB355]

Not to worry, here is the kind of math these people use, and if you don't believe me go to.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497245/posts

Records kept by searchers who collected dead and dying birds showed that 172 birds representing 23 species were found around the base of the tower. Ugoretz said scavengers, including crows and cats, had already taken another 200 or more. That's why he estimated the number of birds killed at around 400. Searchers didn't search the heavily timbered area north of the tower.

[Wiseghy]

This is also a study in how hard it is to please environmentalists.

All forms of energy generation have significant downsides, that can be mitigated but not eliminated through technology. The environmental movement and its NGO's seem to be wedded to being an obstacle to ALL forms power; hardly a pragmatic or helpful position for society.

[stm]

These freakin' environmentalists want their cake and eat it too. They want "green" energy that does not pollute the environment or require fossil fuels. But when these windmill kill a few birds, now they want them banned.

Sooooo typical. I wonder when the likes of Ted Danson is going to come out and say something else very stupid about the environment....

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Update on the windmills near 580 - looks like the envirowackos are winning...

[Larry381]

This could actually lead to a more intelligent breed of bird since all the stupid ones get chewed up in windmills.

[Al Simmons]

Can somebody knowledgeable explain to me why we don't just build a sturdy wire mesh around the blade - like you see on fans - to prevent the birds from being whacked?

It seems like a cheap solution to the problem. Are these people who design these things just idiots, or is there an engineering problem with this?

Thanks

[SeriousSassy]

Not to worry! The guv'mint is already studying the problem in connection with the wanton murder of bats:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423937/posts

[Dasaji]

What about all the fish that get filleted in hydro gen plants/dams??? Aren't these people worried about the fish, too? And how do they count them? Are there cats around to scavenge, also?

[GladesGuru]

Wind power is something of a holy thing to the enviro-whacko's. And they are also, as Dr. Alston Chase so clearly defined, pantheists/animists/transcendentalists.

In a word pagans.

Pagans believe the Gods must be sacrificed to - in light of which, I hereby humbly suggest that blade tips be strengthened in wind mill in a very public location, and that enviro-whacko's be regularly sacrificed to the God of the Holy Wind Mill.

Since this is my idea, can I have TV rights? Pretty please!

[fizziwig]

The best place for wind power is just off the coast...say near cape cod...right in view of wealthy lefties like cronkite. Fewer birds dead....wealthy lefties annoyed...works for me!

The height of enviro wacko hypocrisy was when off shore oil platforms were to be removed and the environ wackos who wanted them removed complained that they were being removed.....because the rigs had formed a nice reef to support nearby sea life....

[NormsRevenge]

Build more nukes (nulcear power plants)!

Save the birdies and the environment.

[Caipirabob]

Reducing the surplus avain population prior to an outbreak of "avian" carried flu would be a good thing, IMHO. Of course the Peta-philes will complain even louder.

[Calvin Locke]

And by the way, 'unexpected' downside?

With all this talk about avian flu, I'd call it an upside in having collection points for carcasses.

[Keith in Iowa]

It's Natrual Selection at its best. Survival of the Fitteist. The dumb ones die...

[Sacajaweau]

I suppose these enviro idiots heat their homes with "hot air" and wash their clothes in the river.

[BigYellowDog]

On a rainy day, I just put a few bowls under the turbines. Instant Chicken Soup. I might start selling it. Capitalism at its best.

[BigYellowDog]

Just keep the geese away. With the large tight formations they fly in, one mistake by the lead bird and they are all pureed. This would quickly skew the numbers.