On that subject I'd REALLY like to see some quantitative data on bird and
bat kills due to wind turbines. I'm not one to ignore the potential problem
and just say it doesnt exist, but is it really significant enough to truly
pose a hazard to populations as a whole??
Bats and birds strike cars and trucks every minute of the day and night but
I can think of many detriments linked to these forms of transportation which
wiegh far more heavily against them than the fact that they kill bats and
birds.
Are bats somehow attracted to wind turbines? Or is it just that they
occasionally end up in the same place at the same time as the turbine blade?
It seems pretty far fetched to me that something which is relatively rare
on the landscape (which are admittedly becoming more prevalent) could be
affecting the population of ANY species to any significant degree.
(At some point will anyone really be SO PC that they will really mean it
when they sing "evey sperm is sacred every sperm is great - when a sperm is
wasted God gets quite irate...")
If there's a problem, then lets find some solutions. But banning wind
power, it seems would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I'm
sure that coal fired power plants kill a lot more of everything indirectly
than the direct and unfortunate contact between turbine blade and living
flying thing.
Non PC but politically liberal - WaV
From: "Mary Standifer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TexasCavers] How Bats Make Short Work of Flying Toward Prey
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:43:23 -0600
So who is doing the research on equipping those bat killing wind power
generators with some sort of bat repellant noise?
Mary Standifer
