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Bird Processors (was Re: Rolling Blackouts)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Thu, 10 May 2001 15:24:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> I gotta say, I don't get this one. A few odd birds get killed. Can't say I
> like it, but at the same time, how many get killed by the pollution of a
> coal-burning power plant? Seems counter-productive to me. I don't know a
> tree-hugger that would agree with that stand.
I'd like to see the data on this in any case. Birds have done just fine
sitting on high-tension wires, so I expect they could adapt fairly quickly
to windmills.
From a more technical POV, I've read studies that many (I'm not sure
which, though) birds' optic centers operate at a quicker rate than our own,
so they are better able to see fast moving objects. That's how they can
catch bugs in flight. I would think that any windmill blade that a human
can see at all would be plainly visible to a bird. Like I said, though; I
haven't read the data.
Dave!
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 | | Re: Rolling Blackouts
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| I gotta say, I don't get this one. A few odd birds get killed. Can't say I like it, but at the same time, how many get killed by the pollution of a coal-burning power plant? Seems counter-productive to me. I don't know a tree-hugger that would agree (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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