[NormsRevenge]

Good enough for Padre Island but not Cape Cod..

[NormsRevenge]

A wind farm off the coast of Scotland. The Bush administration has weighed in against a plan advancing in Congress that would empower the Massachusetts governor to block the nation's first offshore wind farm from being built in Nantucket Sound. (File/Reuters)

[yobid]

I'll have my migratory bird sliced thin please.

[ethics]

a critical migratory bird flyway

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Whatch the environmental Wacko's block this Wind Farm!!!!!

[Cobra64]

"The wind rush is on," Patterson said. "We want to be number one. We want to attract the businesses that build the turbines, that build the blades. ... We want to be the leader in the United States, if not the world."

I like this guy's spirit and guts.

[glorgau]

I wonder what the output will be when a hurricane blows through.

[zerosix]

Great News!

Padre Island is sure one windy place, even when teenage boys are not there for spring break or post graduation celebrations, gulping all of those brewskies and scarfing tacos.

Then it really get's windy but that's not off shore wind and you certainly don't want to be down wind from them.

[KarlInOhio]

Wind farm plans have also sparked disputes, including a bitter fight over a proposed 130-turbine wind farm off Cape Cod, Mass., where the residents fear the turbines will be unsightly.

If the Kennedies steer boats as badly as they do planes and cars, I don't think I would want to build anything valuable near where they drink.

[TexasCajun]

But some environmentalists say the promise of clean energy may not be worth the deaths of countless birds that migrate through the area each year on their way to and from winter grounds in Mexico and Central America.

Most environmentalist's feet never leave the concrete. ...much less seen how high migrating birds fly.

I bet the fishing will be great around these man-made "reefs".

[VeniVidiVici]

The "environmentalists" would block a damn windfarm on the moon. A bunch a blowhards that should all be forced to live in caves.

As slow as these things turn any bird that can't get out of the way should be subject to the forces of Darwinism.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Ditter]

I don't know what migratory birds they are talking about but if it was a danger to seagulls I wouldn't be worried. Anyone who has had a house on the Texas coast knows we could do with fewer flying poop factories. And pigeons!!!!!! don't get me started on them!!

[Constantine XIII]

If the stupid birds can't NOT hit something that big, then they need to get outta the gene pool. :)

[Gordongekko909]

But some environmentalists say the promise of clean energy may not be worth the deaths of countless birds that migrate through the area each year on their way to and from winter grounds in Mexico and Central America.

The hell? They're birds! They can fly! And I imagine that they are able to fly over or around the turbines! If the stupid ones fly through them and get diced, it's evolution in action!

[kenth]

The nation's largest offshore wind farm will be built off the Padre Island seashore, a critical migratory bird flyway, Texas officials announced Thursday.

Heh. Did the Texas official announce it that way, that it will be in a "critical migratory bird flyway"?

[American Quilter]

But some environmentalists say the promise of clean energy may not be worth the deaths of countless birds that migrate through the area each year on their way to and from winter grounds in Mexico and Central America.

I think we should stop providing electical power to environmental wackos. Let them live their philosophy.

[coconutt2000]

To make this thread complete... I must.. i must...


Bring up the fact that all those migrant birds are crossing the border illegally.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Ted Kennedy and the other members of the Senate could wear those little beanies with the propellers on top....all that hot air might generate enough power to run a still.

[D-Chivas]

It would be nice if the idiots at the Associated Press told the truth about migratory birds and wind turbines.

Here's a story in New Scientist magazine that mentions a study in Denmark published last year:

Wind turbines a breeze for migrating birds

* 18 June 2005 * From New Scientist Print Edition.

MIGRATING birds seldom dice with death among the spinning blades of wind turbines. Instead, they give them a wide berth, according to a study of a Danish offshore wind farm.

To see whether the 13,000 offshore turbines planned for European waters would be a hazard to migrating birds, Mark Desholm and Johnny Kahlert of the National Environmental Research Institute in Rønde, Denmark, used radar to track flocks of geese and eider ducks around the Nysted wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The farm's 72 turbines are laid out in rows with their blades 480 metres apart.

Desholm and Kahlert found that the birds flew almost exclusively down the corridors between the turbines, with less than 1 per cent getting close enough to risk collision. The birds gave the turbines an even wider berth at night, sticking more closely to the middle of the corridors. Many also avoided the wind farm altogether. The researchers found that while 40 per cent of flocks in the survey area crossed the wind farm site before construction started, only 9 per cent ventured among the turbines once they were operating (Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0336).

[Cobra64]

"You probably couldn't pick a worse location, unless you're trying to settle the issue as to how damaging they are to migratory birds," said Walter Kittelberger, chairman of the Lower Laguna Madre Foundation.

The birds can fly over and or around the turbin blades. Did this guy ever see our servicemen on aircraft carrier pulling chocks from Navy fighters? And he thinks a bird might be dumb enough to fly into a turbine? (excessively rolling eyes).

[Ben Mugged]

So this is where Kennedy put it......