Thanks for the useful info, Richard. Wind turbines are big in Iowa because it
is a very windy state and there's lots of open land for placing them. it would
be cool if someone could figure out how to make them more scenic (-:
On Friday, December 27, 2013 10:00 PM, Richard J. Williams
<pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
The vast majority of research shows that wind turbines kill relatively few
birds, at least compared with other man-made structures. Collisions with wind
turbines account for about one-tenth of a percent of all unnatural bird deaths
in the United States per year. And, of all bird deaths, 30 percent are due to
natural causes, like baby birds falling from nests.
Each year hundreds of millions of birds are killed by feral cats;
power lines; windows; pesticides; automobiles; communication
towers; while less than 10,000 - 40,000 birds are killed by wind
turbines. According to what I've read, the scientific evidence
shows that there is a negligible impacts on bird populations which
"pales in comparison to the hundreds of millions that die from
flying into buildings."
Read more:
'Do Wind Turbines Need a Rethink?'
Smithsonian:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/
On 12/27/2013 5:03 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
>And they are killing hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, some
>endangered, threatened or highly protected, like Eagles, Bald and Golden. Most
>of these wind farms are located in major migratory flyways.
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>From: Richard J. Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 2:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] It's time for wind power to stand or fall on its
>own
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>On 12/27/2013 2:03 PM, wgm4u wrote:
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>The federal government should step aside and let the industry find its own
>niche in the market.
Most wind farms in the U.S. are private industry. According to what I've read,
wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms with a total installed
nameplate capacity of 12,212 MW from over 40 different projects. Texas produces
the most wind power of any U.S. state. The expanding wind power market will
help Texas meet its 2015 renewable energy goal of 5,000 new megawatts of power
from renewable sources. It's a beautiful sight to see all those wind mills out
by Dad's place near Abilene. "Large wind farms consist of hundreds of
individual wind turbines which are connected to the electric power transmission
network. For new constructions, onshore wind is an inexpensive source of
electricity, competitive with or in many places cheaper than fossil fuel
plants. Wind power, as an alternative to fossil fuels, is plentiful, renewable,
widely distributed, clean, produces no greenhouse gas emissions during
operation and uses little
land."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power
