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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wiegand" data-source="post: 1633615" data-attributes="member: 80769">Vulture Smashed by Prop TurbineMost prop wind turbines have blade tips speeds of about 200 mph. This video illustrates why all birds and bats do not have a chance near the spinning blades of a prop turbine.The prop turbine in this video is not even spinning at full speed. It is spinning at 12 rotations per minute. At full speed it will spin at 20 rotations per minute making this wind turbine even more dangerous to anything that happens to fly by. At just one wind farm, Altamont Pass in CA, over 1000 birds of prey are smashed each year by the spinning blades of prop turbines. It has been going on for 25 years. New prop wind farms are now being built in the habitat of the critically endangered California Condor.                                                                                       Each year across America thousands of eagles, hawks, owls, falcons, vultures and condors perish at so called "green energy" wind farms. The public is not aware that there are alternative wind turbine designs available that do not slaughter our precious wildlife and they also produce more energy. One of them is produced by Environmental Technologies LLC.  If the corrupt entities of Wall Street, Washington, and our courts were not protecting this industry, this terrible problem would already be resolved.</blockquote>