Uhhhh... Whatever-the-hell-your-name-is: I believe the argument against
this wind farm is about gliders and ridge soaring.


"gotovkotzepkoi" wrote in
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So comical is the "mind" of the mindless, liberal drone.
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Hmmm....accused of being a "liberal drone"!! Now that hurts - NOT.
Anyway, the figures about bird deaths from wind turbines appear to be
highly inflated. Here is one of many sources:

http://tinyurl.com/2v72l2l

An excerpt from that link:

"Man-made structure/technology

Associated bird deaths per year (U.S.)

Feral and domestic cats - Hundreds of millions [source: AWEA]

Power lines-130 million -- 174 million [source: AWEA]

Windows (residential and commercial)-100 million -- 1 billion [source:
TreeHugger]

Pesticides-70 million [source: AWEA]

Automobiles-60 million -- 80 million [source: AWEA]

Lighted communication towers-40 million -- 50 million [source: AWEA]

Wind turbines-10,000 -- 40,000 [source: ABC]

Collisions with wind turbines account for about one-tenth of a percent
of all "unnatural" bird deaths in the United States each year. And of
all bird deaths, 30 percent are due to natural causes, like baby birds
falling from nests [source: AWEA]. So why the widespread misconception
that labels wind turbines "bird-o-matics"? I*t all starts with
California, raptors and the thousands of old turbines that make up the
Altamont Pass wind farm.

In this article, we'll find out where the statistics went wrong, how
thousands of birds do end up flying into wind turbines each year and
what's being done to reduce the number of bird-turbine collisions."

Now I can get just as teary eyed as the next guy when one of our avian
soaring buddies gets whacked by a blade. But to say that these things
are going to slice and dice raptors into oblivion is just not true.

The bottom line is that some people do not want these wind farms on the
ridges. The reality is that most people do not want them for aesthetic
reasons-they look like crap. I agree with that. But that's a hard
argument to make. Glider pilots have an even weaker argument in the
overall battle against turbines. There simply aren't enough ridge flying
glider pilots to make a difference. Your average person cannot give a
rat's a*s that you are inconvenienced in the practice of your elite,
rich mans sport.

I am in the "they look like crap" category. I'll never forget how
shocked I was a few years back when I drove across West Texas for the
first time in 30 years. There were turbines all over the place that
severely detracted from the magic of that sparsely populated landscape.
Then, the demise of Boone Pickens big dream stopped him from sticking
them on every nub of terrain in the rest of West Texas.

So, good luck defeating the wind farm initiative but I don't think the
trumped up bird argument carries enough weight to be taken seriously.




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gotovkotzepkoi