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Posted on 05/03/2007 7:07:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
National Research Council: http://www.nationalacademies.org/nrc
the bees. we've got to save the bees!
Birds learn to avoid obstacles over time.
All we need is more wind! Where’s that Karl Rove Hurricane Machine?
Ya know, nuclear reactors don’t kill birds and bats...or bees.
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We looked into it, but they are not a good deal for farmers. I can’t remember all the specifics, but can find out. The companies soliciting the contracts have all the cards stacked in their favor.
The blades on those turbines rotate so slowly, it’s amazing they can even generate elctricity. It’d be impossible for a bird to get whacked by one of the props. As for bats??? Give me a flippin’ break.
They just look slow since they have low revs/min. But the blades are very long and the tip speed of the big ones can be over 100 miles/hr.
Birds are being fricasseed — but, the article does exaggerate the problems.
What you got that will do away with moonbats (Al Gore) and birdbrains (Harry Reid)?
I wonder if Hillary could fly her broom through one of them.
I say let them evolve their way out of it.
The towers appear most dangerous to night-migrating songbirds, bats and some hunting birds such as hawks and eagles.
Put a perch above the top of the blade’s rotation radius.Hunting birds such as hawks and eagles will go to the highst point.
There I just fixed it for the hunting birds such as hawks and eagles.
Give me a minute for the others.
We just got back from a race in West Texas. There are Hundreds of Wind Turbines along I-20, now, and We saw at least 3 cranes installing more.
We also saw more Turkey Buzzards flying around than I have ever seen out there. I counted at least 20 on the remains of one deer take off as I drove by at 75 mph.
So it appears that the windmills aren’t resulting in a massive kill off of birds.
I guess we are stuck with our 500 year supply of coal to generate power.
Beat me to it.
So the speed at the circumfrence is 100 mph, but at a 90 degree intercept, it would be tough to get whacked. Look at the windmills in the Netherlands. Do the farmers get knocked over when they walk through the door? Nope, they dodge the blades.
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