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Wind energy takes a toll on birds, but now there's help
NBC "News" ^
| April 17, 2018
| by Tom Metcalfe
Posted on 04/17/2018 8:58:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I have a sneaking suspicion their plan won’t work.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:02:29 AM PDT
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If we get to 20% by 2030, there’ll be a windmill every 20 feet. Liberals will save the birds by throwing unborn babies into the windmills!!!
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:05:55 AM PDT
by
albie
Neither clean nor renewable as it takes much nonrenewable resources to build and maintain these gigantic bird dicers. Plus the cost of power which is multiples greater than traditional power generation....the leftists greenies are insane....but they feel good...
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:08:31 AM PDT
by
TnTnTn
To: Oldeconomybuyer
he bird migration maps could also make it possible to switch off some of the lights on tall buildings and communication towers at peak times.
Switching-off the anti-collision beacons. What could go wrong?
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:18:19 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Now researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, have hit upon what could prove to be a simple way to protect birds from wind turbines. They’ve used the “signatures” of birds that are visible in raw weather radar data to generate bird maps and live migration forecasts designed to alert wind farm operators to the presence of birds at peak times.
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Too bad eagles don’t migrate in flocks. They’ll still be turned into eagle confit.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:19:38 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(F*ck the FBI)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Even if they could mitigate the bird kill problem, wind turbines are not a good idea because of the very high maintenance costs. Lot cheaper to have solar panel “farms” where the panels are cleaned once a month.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:19:46 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
**The bird migration maps could also make it possible to switch off some of the lights on tall buildings and communication towers at peak times.**
Seems like lights are on these towers for a reason.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:22:07 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I suggest firing illegals to shoot the birds before they hit the windmills- that way the birds won’t be killed by the mills
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:22:34 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: BlueStateRightist
I have a sneaking suspicion their plan wont work. In Lib-Land it is Feelings and Good Intentions that count, not results.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:24:54 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire.)
To: Iron Munro
In LIB-Lunatic-Land NOTHING works.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:26:21 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I keep getting challenged for photo evidence of bird kill from windmills.
Anybody have a source?
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:29:30 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
> designed to alert wind farm operators to the presence of birds at peak times.
Another couple of percent out an intermittent energy source. Think of it as the wind farms carbon tax, with the carbon being birds bodies.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:33:50 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Since no cost is too great to promote leftist environment-"saving" technology, you'd think someone would implement a blade guard like in the 1950's...
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The left deliberately ignored the obvious fact that the damn blades chop birds. Windmills have become an icon for the left, a symbol of their religion, and so they will allow nothing to tarnish that icon. They have deliberately covered up the fact that they are killing birds.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:37:44 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
To: I want the USA back
Put them offshore. Feed the fish.
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posted on
04/17/2018 9:58:45 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If wind power now accounts for 8 percent of the nation’s energy-generating capacity, I have a bridge to sell you.
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posted on
04/17/2018 10:05:10 AM PDT
by
kickstart
("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Does it work for bats as well? Wind farms kill more insect eating bats than birds.
lets see, huum, the wind is right to make money, but there are birds coming, what to do? Light em up guys. Damn the birds and full speed ahead!
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posted on
04/17/2018 10:13:43 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
In your GIF, I thought the sunset line was moving in the wrong direction but, on second look, I see the GIF is running backwards in time.
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posted on
04/17/2018 10:20:13 AM PDT
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
With more than 50,000 wind turbines in place across the U.S. ...Researchers estimate that 140,000 to 328,000 birds are killed every year in collisions with the turbines' spinning rotor blades and support towers Only three to six birds per tower per year? Pull my other leg too.
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posted on
04/17/2018 10:21:19 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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