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Wild Turbines. (1 Viewer)
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RichieTwitchy
YNWA
How's about we get all the cats to run on treadmills powering the country and therefore too busy to kill birds?
Ergo we kill two birds with one stone?
Erm, maybe that idiom isn't best placed
Ergo we kill two birds with one stone?
Erm, maybe that idiom isn't best placed
Or just keep your cat indoors.
Suspect the turbine kill percentage is very much larger for large soaring birds such as raptors.
In the US, the wind industry got a pass for killing endangered species such as Golden Eagles, deemed to be 'takings'. There is no independent monitoring or verification of the kill numbers, even photos are very rare, as the industry has learned the benefits of a low profile. They let useful idiots such as the Audubon Society prate about the threat of global warming, while ignoring the slaughter in their own back yard.
Not a fan of wind turbines, uneconomical eyesores that kill indiscriminately.
Seems an 'ad hominem' argument. Who cares whether the GWPF is funded by skeptics, the substance of the papers seems pretty legit and should not be dismissed simply because one does not agree with the publisher.
Still, some caution seems to be advisable.
Simon Wates
Well-known member
The problem with wind turbines and bird and bat collisions does have a solution - though it can be costly, though certainly viable for wind park companies. Here in southwest Portugal, near Sagres a Portuguese company (Strix) has been working over a decade on fine-tuning methods to avoid collisions. The result is, that through many 1,000s of hours of observation and experimenting with radar as an assistance, bird collisons have been avoided completely. They are a great team and I have had the pleasure of working with them over the years on site helping with 100s of days of raptor migration monitoring, power line surveys (from the windpark) and looking for casualties below the turbines. Their success has been notable and the system they have in place is raising interest among others working in the environmental part of the wind energy industry. I don't like wind turbines at all - awful things on many levels. Anyway, as they exist, better that some folk are working very hard to find solutions to bird deaths etc.
Strix is now working on wind park monitoring for birdlife in Egypt, Tunisia, Djibouti and other countries.
https://www.strix.pt/index.php/en/birdtrack
Strix is now working on wind park monitoring for birdlife in Egypt, Tunisia, Djibouti and other countries.
https://www.strix.pt/index.php/en/birdtrack
Seems a wonderful idea if properly implemented. The mere fact that someone is actually watching is the big step forward, it keep the operators honest.
Here in the US, there is no such monitoring at all. The Audubon Society is awol on this issue, as is the EPA and the various conservancies. I assume these various entities are all happy denizens of the Washington swamp, which grows deeper and less salubrious by the day
