At 10:13 PM 7/14/01, Doug wrote:
>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.
<crackle> "Altimont Tower . . . this is Eagle one-five requesting
permission to land." <crackle>
<crackle> "Negative, Eagle one-five, Silicon Valley is running their air
conditioners, so the wind farm is running overtime today . . . "<crackle>
-- Ronn! :)
