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Trump claims wind energy "kills all the birds." Cats and windows are actually much more to blame.
CBS "News" ^ | October 23, 2020 | BY SOPHIE LEWIS

Posted on 10/23/2020 12:00:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: EVO X

We regularly have birds slam into our office windows and kill themselves.

Of course the windows are mirrored. We’re assuming the birds see another bird in their territory and mount an unfortunate challenge.


61 posted on 10/23/2020 1:13:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: hecticskeptic

Thanks for the additional info! I think you, me and that engineer all agree this is about milking taxpayer subsidies.


62 posted on 10/23/2020 1:14:44 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
We regularly have birds slam into our office windows and kill themselves.

Of course the windows are mirrored. We’re assuming the birds see another bird in their territory and mount an unfortunate challenge.

Interesting observation. My parents had their windows replaced 20 years ago and still no difference. It just wasn't a problem...

63 posted on 10/23/2020 1:32:08 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But cats are even less energy efficient than windmills.


64 posted on 10/23/2020 1:37:10 PM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Deliver your cat to a Feline Euthanasia Center within the next 30 days or be declared an enemy of the state.


65 posted on 10/23/2020 1:38:33 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Missing in action:

A "factcheck" of any sort by Sophie Lewis on the Niagara Falls of Joek Buyden debate lies...

66 posted on 10/23/2020 1:47:02 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil
A "factcheck" of any sort by Sophie Lewis on the Niagara Falls of Joek Buyden debate lies...

NIAGARA FALLS! Slowly I turned.....

67 posted on 10/23/2020 1:49:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: LisaS
What about prothonotary warblers? Do cats kill many of them?

For those not familiar with the Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers saga, Chambers (when he was a Communist) had known Hiss, but Hiss denied having known him. Chambers remembered how Hiss had gotten very excited after seeing a prothonotary warbler and told the investigators about it. Later Hiss was asked about that and said yes, he had seen one...not realizing that he was confirming Chambers' claim to have known him earlier.

68 posted on 10/23/2020 2:24:26 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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69 posted on 10/23/2020 2:25:18 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Joe Biden: "Abraham Lincoln is the most racist president ever.")
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To: EVO X

Not sure about cats. But I clean up birds about 5 times a year. We drew thin white lines on some of our windows to stop the birds from flying in to them. It works, mostly. Birds tend to fly into windows if they can see through to windows on the other side.


70 posted on 10/23/2020 2:44:59 PM PDT by poinq
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cats and Windows don’t kill eagles and migrating storks. There are far fewer of the large birds than of the songbirds that cats find tasty. robins are not likely to be in danger of extinction any time soon. The big birds cannot absorb the killing off so well.


71 posted on 10/23/2020 3:33:04 PM PDT by arthurus ( COVFEFE 0HO)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Cats and windows are actually much more to blame.
Is that why Biden and AOC want to retrofit every building in the country with smaller windows?
72 posted on 10/23/2020 4:48:35 PM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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To: snarkytart
cats should be indoor pets anyway
Not in my house or shop.

I don't like animals that shit or pee in my house or in the garden. I don't care if it is in a box.

73 posted on 10/23/2020 5:00:58 PM PDT by lewislynn ( It's not your color stupid, it's your attitude.)
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To: lewislynn

Then dont own any. Simple.

Btw..
Your shit probably is bigger and smells worst.


74 posted on 10/23/2020 5:36:31 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: lewislynn

Worse*


75 posted on 10/23/2020 5:36:57 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: arthurus

There are more cats and buildings than wind mills but they kill a lot ....remember we shut down logging over the spotted owl that would nest in Kmart signs..


76 posted on 10/23/2020 6:25:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Literacy: not a requirement for CBS reporters.


77 posted on 10/23/2020 6:55:16 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I think you, me and that engineer all agree this is about milking taxpayer subsidies.

Yes... but the consequence (outside of a scandalous waste of money) is that in the process, an unstable grid is being created. I've been working on some off-grid concepts for the past 20 years and have implemented quite a few of them. I'm currently working on bringing these together for my next home which will be completely off-grid. The main reason why I'm doing this is simple... no confidence that the people making decisions concerning public electrical supply have a clue as to what they are doing.

78 posted on 10/24/2020 4:52:05 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: mpackard

Birds of all nature, most notable the Endangerd American Bald Eagle. Won’t try for indiviual pics, the killing of our National Symbol is more than enough, more than they admit.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=windmill+kill+eagles&form=HDRSC2&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicHover

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Bald+Eagle+Killing&form=IDINTS&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicHover


79 posted on 10/24/2020 7:28:37 AM PDT by GailA (TRUMP IS A GUTSY PRESIDENT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They do not count the number of birds killed by wind/solar because the results would be alarming.

Just as they do not count how many illegals are in our country properly.

Just as they do not count the number who died from the Wuhan virus properly.

It is all orchestrated.


80 posted on 10/24/2020 8:43:40 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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