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Wind turbines kill up to 39 million birds a year!
CFACT ^ | March 18, 2013 | Jim Wiegand

Posted on 11/04/2015 11:15:00 AM PST by george76

Big Wind hides evidence of turbine bird kills and gets rewarded. Here is how they do it.

In 1984 the California Energy Commission .. the primary environmental issue alluded to was the extreme hazard that wind turbines posed to raptors.

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Since the early 1980s, the industry has known there is no way its propeller-style turbines could ever be safe for raptors. With exposed blade tips spinning in open space at speeds up to 200 mph, it was impossible. Wind developers also knew they would have a public relations nightmare if people ever learned how many eagles are actually being cut in half - or left with a smashed wing, to stumble around for days before dying.

To hide this awful truth, strict wind farm operating guidelines were established - including high security, gag orders in leases and other agreements, and the prevention of accurate, meaningful mortality studies.

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Incredibly, the APWRA report actually admitted: We found one raptor carcass buried under rocks and another stuffed in a ground squirrel burrow ... It is easy to see how human "errors" keep bird mortality low.

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Studies worsen as turbines proliferate and increase in size .

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The result was significantly more fatalities of golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, burrowing owls, mallards, horned larks and western meadowlarks. Turbines with slower rotations per minute actually made it appear that there was more space and "greater windows of time." This fooled birds, by giving them the illusion that they had open flight space between the rotating blades.

In fact, the illusion fools people, too. The newest turbines move their blades at 10-20 rotations per minute, which appears to be slow - but for their blade tips this translates into 100-200 mph

(Excerpt) Read more at cfact.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agenda21; americankestrels; baldeagles; bigwind; birdgenocide; birds; eagles; energy; goldeneagles; greenscam; hawks; kestrels; raptors; rarebirds; redtailedhawks; windfarms; windpower; windturbines
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To: george76

Rodent populations flourish in wind turbine areas due to the reduction of predator birds.


21 posted on 11/04/2015 11:33:39 AM PST by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: george76
#BlackBirdsLivesMatter
The others not so much.

22 posted on 11/04/2015 11:36:00 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
OK, here's the right one.


24 posted on 11/04/2015 11:38:06 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: george76

Is that the reason that the food at KFC tastes a bit funny these days?


25 posted on 11/04/2015 11:38:47 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: roamer_1
93 million? per year? I cry bullcrap.

So what is your estimate, and the science behind how you come to your scientific conclusion?

26 posted on 11/04/2015 11:39:30 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: WENDLE

Wind generators will not last 50 years, much less “thousands”.


27 posted on 11/04/2015 11:45:41 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: george76

What a Waste of Energy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjMRVmbdzK8


28 posted on 11/04/2015 11:52:25 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: george76

With that many killed you would think there would be some videos out there for a few of them. I see none.


29 posted on 11/04/2015 11:54:01 AM PST by soycd
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To: george76

39 Million birds? Isn’t this what the left wants... to lessen their population, for more room for humans...

oh wait, I have that mixed up, they want less humans, more birds.


30 posted on 11/04/2015 11:54:10 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: george76

If I cared about wind power, which I don’t, I would defend it by saying: evolution. Birds that learn to stay away from windmills will leave more little birdies to group up into the future.


31 posted on 11/04/2015 11:54:53 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: george76

We don’t have Wind Turbines here ,we have too much wind and tons of Oil


32 posted on 11/04/2015 11:58:24 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: george76

Has anyone ever done the thermo on what is actually taking place at a wind turbine? It produces energy by doing work. Theoretically, there is a slight temperature drop between the upstream and downstream air especially across the huge wind turbine farms in the US and Europe. Does this not affect global climate? WE are taking energy out of the air which means that we are cooling it.


33 posted on 11/04/2015 12:00:19 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: soycd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NAAzBArYdw


34 posted on 11/04/2015 12:12:21 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

That’s a drop in the bucket; cats kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, according to a recent study.


35 posted on 11/04/2015 12:13:30 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: Reaganez
Cats win!

"Cats: 365 million to 1 billion"

I can believe it. A month ago in one week, my two cats brought an assortment of catches to our backyard deck, of birds, snakes, gophers and mice. I wondered how they caught birds until I saw them make a run at a tree, climbing the tree trunk and branches to go after birds high up in the tree.

36 posted on 11/04/2015 12:16:14 PM PST by roadcat
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To: george76

For the love of God, someone please photoshop a picture of a wind farm with a KFC located beneath each turbine.


37 posted on 11/04/2015 12:28:23 PM PST by Mich Patriot (Nostradamus had nothing on George Orwell.)
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To: Reaganez

WE may end up with a birdless world


38 posted on 11/04/2015 12:55:23 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

The DDT of the 21st century, perhaps.


39 posted on 11/04/2015 1:28:12 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (No such thing as micromanagement...It's always more like microMISmanagement)
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To: Mich Patriot
KFC doesn't use 'road kill'.

They grow their own.


40 posted on 11/04/2015 6:54:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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