[joesnuffy]

wonder if all the windmills slow down or speed up the rotation of the earth....hmmmm
more sunshine on one spot longer...might mean global warming..

[graycamel]

Put screens around the windmills so the birdies can't fly thru.

[HamiltonJay]

This thing is one ugly thing to look at, the put one up in PA recently as well you can see from the turnpike... but come on 1000 birds a year die by flying into windmill blades? Damn.. if windmills are such a hazard, how have the dutch managed to have birds after all these centuries?

Envirowackos.... gotta love em.

[Eala]

Since the phalanx of giant windmills began churning in the air [...] an estimated 22,000 birds have died, including hundreds of golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, kestrels and other raptors,

Let's see, that's 22000 birds total, and since they only say "hundreds" I'll be generous and say 1000 raptors, killed by 7000 windmills over two decades. Let's run the numbers:

22000 / 20 = 1100 birds per year.
1000 / 20 = 50 raptors per year.

1100 / 365.25 = 3.01 birds per day.
50 / 365.25 = 0.136 raptors per day (1/0.136 = 7.3 days / raptor, or one raptor per week)

3.01 / 7000 = 0.0043 birds per day per windmill (1/0.043 = it takes 2326 windmills to kill one bird per day)
0.136 / 7000 = 1.94e-5 raptors per day per windmill (1/1.94e-5 = it takes 51471 windmills to kill one raptor a day)

[larryjohnson]

Rush on yr ping list??

[The Great RJ]

There's a lot of wind in using wind power for generating electricity. One problem is that they are either on or off. To meet varing needs one needs lots of windmills to bring on and off to meet demand. They aren't pretty and without question chop up some flying critters particularly if you have lots of them in one place.

While the wind is always blowing someplace it might not be at the wind farm location when there is a demand. I've driven by those vast wind farms in SW Minnesota as well as out here on the SD tundra on blistering hot summer days and haven't seen nary a blade turning while the air conditioners in Minneapolis are panting for power. I'm sure the windmills are also humming along at 2am when a cool early summer breeze drops temps to the 60's and the only lights on are street lights.

Face it windmills just aren't cost efficient as a means of generating electric power.

[Protagoras]

I don't see the problem as long as the parts are made in America.

[talleyman]

Shouldn't this be in "Breaking Wind News"?

[gridlock]

There once was a man from Nantucket who told me that the rich and famous up there, like Robert Kennedy Jr. and Walter Cronkite, are all up in arms about a plan to build wind turbines off the coast. Look for more "Wind Power is Bad" stories as these folks manipulate the media in order to preserve their pristine views.

Windstorm; Why Are 'Environmentalists' Opposing Windmills in Nantucket Sound?

[TheRightGuy]

an estimated 22,000 birds have died, including hundreds of golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, kestrels and other raptors, after flying into the spinning blades of the wind turbines.

I've heard these wind turbines referred to as aviary cuisinarts.