treehugger.com — It takes 30-plus turbines to reach a kill rate of one bird per year. However you look at it, though, birds in the United States seem to die in turbine blades at a rate no higher than 40,000 a year. Deaths by dastardly domestic felines, on the other hand, number in the "hundreds of millions." One less reason not to consider wind.
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captmonkeyMay 24, 2007
I hear chicken farms kill birds too.
tlibertyMay 24, 2007
No the answer is simple. Kill enough cats to offset the loss created by the wind mills.
Closed AccountMay 24, 2007
apparantly they kill more species of animals than anything else on earth. and I know this is true because I saw it on tv.
kgninpoMay 24, 2007
One thing that environmentalists aren't providing are real solutions that make sense for the human population as a whole. Maybe if we all collectively died at once that would make them happy. Of course, all of our smelly, rotting corpses would invariably create a health hazard for wildlife or the fumes from our decaying flesh would rip another hole in the ozone layer, so that option is out. I don't mind that people complain about the environment, but if you're not going to provide a logical, workable solution in addition to complaining, sit down and shut up.
elementopMay 24, 2007
There's an eagle that often visits a tree in my backyard, but I've never left a woodchuck on my lawn
Closed AccountMay 24, 2007
bearly any birds die in windmills. maybe 1 per 100 per year. maybe. and show me your facts that say how much energy it takes to build a windmill, and how much a windmill produce in its lifetime and i bet it is not a net loss. And when i saw the windmills in my province upclose, it was in the country. there were 40 scattered all over. i got out of my car look at one maybe 1/4 of a kilometer away and i could not hear it or the any others. we went up close and then could here the swoosh. Its not that bad. The places the windmills were built was all farm land not in the middle of a neighborhood. Plus theres plenty of space for deer and whatever else to walk around it. its not a oil pipeline.
parker307May 25, 2007
Cats are not native species to North America(not including bobcats and mountain lions). Cats are much more numerous than they would be naturally. We feed them and we have also eliminated many top predators than would kill cats. So really, cats are very unnatural predators here in North America. Unless of course you consider absolutely everything that people do is 'natural' which is ridicules but some anti-environment types say this. For those I say go out and enjoy nature in the middle of your local shopping center parking lot until you come to your senses.
Closed AccountMay 26, 2007
Wind turbines are not "GREEN" for many reasons beyond birds.They are a land use nightmare and a blight on the landscape.