[Libloather]

Global killing.

[tet68]

YOu don’t mess with English Birders.

[Salamander]

Bird Blender ping

[Still Thinking]

Libs eating their own. Excellent! [steeples fingers]

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It’s about time that lawmakers treated the environmental impacts of wind power as seriously as they do the impacts of the fossil fuel, and nuclear industries.

[Jim Robinson]

Gee, what a mess. Save the birds or save the planet? I know. Save both. Kill the people.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

...companies building the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, London Array, ditched a second phase of the huge project, largely because of uncertainties about its impact on birds...

There are no "uncertainties" about the impact of wind farms on birds. They kill them. In large quantities.

[bert]

[Seaplaner]

As something of a birder, I genuinely feel a sense of loss as hawks, falcons and eagles are sacrificed, unnecessarily, to windfarms.

That these bird-killing machines get an environmental "pass" does illustrate the hypocrisy of the leftie/greens; and, it should cast a doubt on other areas of pseudo-"environmental" sophistry.

(Global warming/climate change comes to mind)

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[RayChuang88]

This environmental issues with large-scale wind farms and solar power sites is why the molten-salt reactor (MSR) looks more and more attractive nowadays.

Unlike conventional light-water pressurized uranium-fueled reactors, MSR's offer these advantages:

1. It uses commonly thorium-232 dissolved in molten fluoride salts as fuel, a lot cheaper to make than the solid fuel rods of uranium-235 now required.
2. You can even use reprocessed uranium-235 fuel rods and plutonium-239 from dismantled nuclear weapons dissolved in molten fluoride salts as fuel, eliminating a major nuclear waste disposal problem.
3. Because the fuel is in liquid form, there is very little "meltdown" risk.
4. It doesn't require a dangerous pressurized reactor vessel.
5. Doing an emergency shutdown (SCRAM) only requires dumping the liquid fuel from the reactor.
6. By using closed-loop Brayton turbines to turn the power generators, you eliminate the need for expensive, space-wasting cooling towers or locating the reactor near a large body of cooling water.
7. The radioactive waste generated is very small in amount, and only has a half-life of under 300 years. That means very cheap waste disposal, if the nuclear medicine industry doesn't grab it first!

Small wonder why there is major revived interest in this type of nuclear reactor, especially since thorium-232 is relatively easy to find on Earth (and there is a lot on the Moon also), so running out of fuel is definitely not an issue.

[dalereed]

Just release a bunch of cats to clean up the mess the windmills make!

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

They also had a solar project that flash-cooked birds in flight. I can’t recall the location.