Re: Me on Edge

[Doug Pensinger]

Andrew Crystall wrote:

> Actually, it's not so much that. It's that wind farms require LARGE
> amounts of open space, are a noise hazard, play havock with radar
> and many other things.

One other disadvantage to wind farms: they kill birds.  One of the largest
Golden Eagle populations in N.A. is in the Diablo Mts. east of here.  There is
a large wind farm at Altimont (near Livermore).  It so happens that the area
that the wind farm occupies is an area used mostly by juvenile Goldens before
they are able to stake out their own territory.  The Department of Energy is
studying the problem by capturing eagles and fitting them with radio
backpacks.

Sigh, just can't win...

Doug