Posted on 06/07/2010 9:23:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Study: Wind Farms = Bird Killers Tiffany Kaiser - June 7, 2010 11:51 AM
A recent study in Klickitat County, Washington shows that active wind farms in Washington and Oregon kill more than 6,500 birds and 3,000 bats annually.
Biologist Orah Zamora works for West, Inc., an ecological field study company, monitors the Windy Flats project, one of the largest wind farms in the United States. Zamora looks for dead birds and bats that have been severed by the spinning blades of the surrounding wind turbines in order to conduct survey's to observe how wind-power development is affecting birds.
"It's like a crime scene, and you try to figure out what happened," said Zamora. "Sometimes it's really obvious because you can see a slice mark."
These surveys are financed by the wind industry and are mainly concerned with birds like eagles, hawks, and other raptors. Klickitat County is especially a concern because the area has an abundance of prey for these larger birds, hence, they tend to stay in the area. According to the study, these birds are diving for their prey and do not pay attention to the large wind turbine blades that may be in the way.
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I learned something new today.
Some beer is explicitly marketed as kosher, a fact which may lead to confusion ...
LOL. I love how everything the commies do fails. I just wish it didn’t effect the country as a whole.
No it isn't.
As long as it is subsidized by our taxpayer money, & supplmenented by traditional, coal, natural gas, oil, etc. Otherwise it is a losing, ugly, unsightly mess. I live approx 20 miles from hundreds of acres of wind turbines, and believe me, NOBODY wants to look at these from their house or farm. Cut off the subsidies, and these wind farms would die instantly. Talk about an ecological eyesore & disaster. I wish all the dumb ass liberals & eco-greenies who vote for & promote this green crap would wake up in the morning to the hundreds of these wind turbines humming in their back yards. I see the liberal elitists on Martha's Vineyard, including the Kennedy's didn't want these wind turbines in their yachting waters either.
Some of my old links:
Go nuclear, Save the Raptors!
http://www.wind-works.org/articles/NRELBirdReport04.html
http://www.windaction.org/documents/13936
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/new-data-shows-bird-kills-up-in-altamont/
Been saying this for years!
“Some beer is explicitly marketed as kosher”
Yeah, I don’t understand that. I presume Rabbinic oversight to make sure they are doing what they say they are doing on the label.
Depends how anal one is.
“Wouldn’t that cause the Earth’s rotation to slow down?”
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No, it works like a sail pushing a ship. It actually causes the rotation to speed up, we need to stop this foolishness before the centrifugal force causes us all to fly off into space.
I’m with you. I think Wind Energy is a pipe dream; plus it’s ugly, and now it’s killing birds. Just plain stupid.
I agree with the bad economics part.
BUT - we have to be creative here...
I see shredded poultry downstream for the starving masses due to the Baraqqi depression.
Wind power isn't feasible yet. It may never be a good form of energy generation except in places that have no alternative.
It has no viability in any market that actually has other alternatives. It's okay in the arctic and similar places that have no grid, but anywhere in the continental US, it's a disaster that will help no one.
There are few macroeconomic conditions that favor wind power other than the arctic. Certainly not in India.
You put your best, most reliable options forward, not unproven ideas, or worse, wind power which has proven to be inefficient, ineffective, and erratic at best.
Remember the "cedars of Lebanon" has morphed into "Remember the Amazon Rain Forest (of old)"!
Man's lifespan use to be an average of 50 or so, now we're living, on average, well into our 70's. Since our DNA hasn't changed, it must be merely the acceleration due to fewer trees to slow the Earth's axial rotation.
So obviously, we're beginning to win this battle, just as cap-and-trade is poised to win back the Earth from AGW. With sufficient tax dollars, our benevolent government will be able to do anything.
/s
HF
Canada thinking of installing a farm in Lake St. Clair. From what I've read of these things, they need at least a 10 mph wind to function properly. My experience of wind conditions here in S.E. Michigan has shown that on most days, the wind doesn't pick up until around noon then begins to die down at the end of the day on normal days.
Before we got all the rain over the past week and a half and it was really warm, most of those days there was hardly a wind at all. I can't see dumping all that taxpayer money into a venture that requires 100% cooperation from nature.......
So far today we’ve had a gust of wind at 7 mph. LOL
Exactly!
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