[Oldeconomybuyer]

[BlueStateRightist]

I have a sneaking suspicion their plan won’t work.

[albie]

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!!!

[Army Air Corps]

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?

[Flick Lives]

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.

[RayChuang88]

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.

[Gamecock]

**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.

[Bob434]

I suggest firing illegals to shoot the birds before they hit the windmills- that way the birds won’t be killed by the mills

[G Larry]

I keep getting challenged for photo evidence of bird kill from windmills.

Anybody have a source?

[glorgau]

> 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.

[treetopsandroofs]

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...

[I want the USA back]

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.

[kickstart]

If wind power now accounts for 8 percent of the nation’s energy-generating capacity, I have a bridge to sell you.

[PIF]

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!

[House Atreides]

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.

[KarlInOhio]

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.

[rjsimmon]

Put really big deer whistles on them.

[DungeonMaster]

It looks like it was in March of 2017 that the 8 percent threshold was hit. The average for wind is 7 percent. March is the windiest month in the Midwest anyway.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-renewables/wind-solar-surpassed-10-percent-of-u-s-electricity-in-march-eia-idUSKBN195291

[bassmaner]

There are likely very few places on earth where windmills can serve as a viable commercial electrical power generation method without government subsidy.

[MortMan]

The lights are on buildings and towers as a visual reference for airplanes, among other things. Stupid idea to turn them off.

And wind will be hard pressed to reach 12% of power by 2030, IMO.