Scores of the protected birds have been dying each year after colliding with the blades of about 5,000 wind turbines. […]
‘It would take 167 pairs of local nesting golden eagles to produce enough young to compensate for their mortality rate related to wind energy production,’ field biologist Doug Bell, manager of East Bay Regional Park District’s wildlife programme, told the Los Angeles Times. ‘We only have 60 pairs,’ he added. […]
Nationwide, about 440,000 birds are said to be accidentally killed at wind farms each year, as well as thousands more bats. With the government pushing for more wind energy farms, that statistic is likely to rise. […]
Danger Captain Journalist, danger! Math overload!
… the moves have done little to protect the golden eagles, which weigh about 14 pounds and stand up to 409 inches tall.
Getting their skinny little heads lopped off, they is.
peterj – you dumba$$ – “Think of all the homeless these giant birds could feed…” It’s not the homeless, rather it’s the starving that need feeding! Other than that you are correct.
You don’t use “decimal” points in inches, ET.
It’s obvious why they make carbine windmills. They have to fend off the 10 meter high eagles that are furious over all the dead birds, and try to knock the windmills over.
If you read between the lines of the MSM, you get the real story. Just like those Men in Black movies.
now I know where the words to the song came from.\\
‘she’s real fine my 409’
beach boys from California
Kate: yes you do
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kate – of course you use the decimal point to show a fraction of an inch or foot. You can use the decimal for both metric and ‘English’ measurements. So – the bird is 40.9 inches.
For example, one meter (100 cm) is 39.37 inches.
And this article doesn’t even mention the high levels of free roton emissions produced by wind turbines. Soak up enough of those things, people augur themselves right into the ground! I’ve seen it!
The obvious solution is to put nets around all the wind farms.
I don’t see why not…that is the type of solution that they try foisting on the other energy producing industries.
ET, only if you’re a machinist. Everyone else says 40 and 7/8ths.
Wood working nerd, can’t help myself… ~:D
In Ohio, near the Indiana line, just north of US30 is a large windfarm project going up.
30+ and probably more to go with the amount of stuff I’ve seen staged on rail sidings along Hwy 309 in Ohio, a truckstop in Beaverdam, OH and other locations.
Absolutely spoils the scenery.