Since windmills only tap energy from winds close to the ground, the odds that they will actually affect climate is zip point bupkus. And dead birds stopped being a problem when the large, slow-turning Danish style turbines replaced the older models used at Altamont, where bird dicing was first noted as an issue.
But notice how the flat-earth lobby operates: if energy source X once had problem Y, and problem Y is subsequently fixed, then they will keep on raising problem Y as an objection. This is why we keep hearing the "nuclear waste is forever" mantra even though France and Japan have been recycling it for years. The US stores it because waste recycling is currently m ore expensive than mining fresh uranium. When we need the uranium and plutonium that waste contains, it will be waiting there for us in Yucca Mountain.
“Since windmills only tap energy from winds close to the ground, the odds that they will actually affect climate is zip point bupkus.”
I don’t believe in free energy. It comes from some place and will have some impact however negligible.
There is a reason we moved away from windmills and have never adopted solar as a major source. They are less efficient then hydrocarbon based energy sources.
I think we should adopt nuclear but until we collar the envir-whacko’s we will not make progress there.
Actually, I believe that we don't recycle because Jimmy Carter, in his infinate, forward-thinking wisdom, made it illegal.