silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months agoThe man behind the fall of US offshore windwww.canarymedia.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up150
arrow-up150external-linkThe man behind the fall of US offshore windwww.canarymedia.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoThis summer I walked into a large windmill farm to count all the dead birds with my daughter. Across 20 mills, we counted an average of zero dead birds.
minus-squareMrMakabar@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoTurns out birds are smart enough to understand that the blades can kill them. So they avoid flying into them.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoSomewhat. It is possible to have poor siting, which people found out after deploying the first wind farms.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoToo bad they are confused by windows :(
minus-squareTheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoTo be fair, if can’t fly through why see through? Is a pretty rational bird-take
minus-squareTheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThis tells me nothing man. There could have been 10,000 dead birds at one plant, and they just had negative 1000 dead birds at 10 pthers
This summer I walked into a large windmill farm to count all the dead birds with my daughter. Across 20 mills, we counted an average of zero dead birds.
Turns out birds are smart enough to understand that the blades can kill them. So they avoid flying into them.
Somewhat. It is possible to have poor siting, which people found out after deploying the first wind farms.
Too bad they are confused by windows :(
To be fair, if can’t fly through why see through? Is a pretty rational bird-take
This tells me nothing man. There could have been 10,000 dead birds at one plant, and they just had negative 1000 dead birds at 10 pthers