Can you imagine a large flock of birds traveling through a windmill farm? Avoiding two types of collisions at the same time might overpower their abilities. Someone should arrange it so that the windmills are along the migration roots of starlings.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 8:04 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Rethinking wind power I wrote: They kill very few, I suppose because birds are evolved to avoid large moving objects in the sky such as tree branches waving in the wind. Also, birds avoid whacking into other birds in crowded flocks, as we discussed here recently. I think there was a problem with small, rapidly spinning, first generation wind turbines in the 1970s. - Jed
