why isn’t the story of the slaughter of birds being told? Yea,wonder why.
2014: StopTheseThings: Wind Turbines: lucky to last 10 Years
https://stopthesethings.com/2014/05/28/wind-turbines-lucky-to-last-10-years/
Don’t forget this story is coming right on the heels of GM discontinuing the Chevy Volt. Now what does the battery driven car have in common with windmills?
BTW-Every time I drive along wind farms none of the windmills are turning. Just a few. Don’t worry. Solar will save us.
I have seen them cluttering the landscape in nearby West Virginia.
Have yet to find many people ‘happy’ with them.
Usually see them just sitting there stagnant(the fans) and I will ask a local how hot does it have to get before they plug them in to get the valley cooled down......
Of course, whenever I go into an ‘Australian themed’ bar, I will ask the inevitable question...
What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?
A STICK.
Everyone likes a ‘little A$$ now and then but NOBODY likes a SMART A$$
“why isn’t the story of the slaughter of birds being told?...” Dr. Ursus, post 12]
“The new towers will be improved Cuisinarts.
It slices and dices more birds then ever.” [minnesota_bound, post 76]
Bird strikes on wind-turbine blades are so numerous that some endangered species are experiencing renewed problems. Especially predator species: eagles, hawks, falcons etc. The killing is so high in some areas that someone coined the term “bird Cuisinarts”, as the second poster picked up on.
Bad as this sounds, there may be worse problems ahead for wildlife, agriculture, and everyone dependent on agriculture - which happens to be everyone in the country.
Bats send out sound pulses to locate prey, and to find their way around - around their home area, and when they migrate (some species do). Wildlife researchers are just beginning to understand the role of bats in fertilization of plants, but it has proven to be greater than anyone previously suspected: bats may be of importance to agriculture on a level approaching bees. Relationships are still being explored. Much is known about bat predation on insect populations, but much remains to be clarified there also.
Rotating wind turbines throw back “bat sonar” pulses but they remodulate them, altering the sound characteristics so greatly that it interferes with the ability of bats to catch prey, and - possibly worse - confuses their navigation, especially when migrating. Any rotating object hit by bat sonar causes remodulation, but wind turbines are much larger than any other moving object bats encounter. And turbine farms, where dozens and hundreds of generators are spread over large swaths of territory, can only make problems worse: confusing bats, and interfering with their abilities to catch insects across very large portions of our productive farmland, is not a smart idea.
Radar uses electromagnetic energy (a radio wave) that echoes from an object to locate targets and assist navigation of ships and aircraft, very much like bats employ sonic energy. Remodulation of a transmitted signal by whirling or spinning blades has long been studied by radar system designers. Spinning propellers on fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter rotors, even the front face of the turbines in jet engines, all throw back the radar beam remodulated in a very specific fashion, and this remodulation has been characterized to permit identification of the targeted aircraft, by the remodulation pattern.
Bats, however, have no knowledge of the wind turbines their sonar hits, and cannot perform research to help them reorient, navigate, and hunt better. Crop yields may suffer.