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kulpims*nature *wings *controversy I guess birds wouldn't support this kind of 'green' energy
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FantomasSomething very odd happens at the 9 second mark where the bird seems to 'jump' towards the rotors.
I'm really not sure what to make of this video.
robbersdog49The camera zooms out.
On a more general note: These sort of videos are what they are; one side of the argument. Nothing more. Nothing less. This shows a very direct incident. The problem with other methods of energy creation (mainly burning fossil fuels) is that the majority of the casualties are from indirect incidents. Pollution causing a loss of fertility in the breeding population would be a good example of where a population could be massively affected, but it wouldn't be obvious what was happening and there wouldn't be the opportunity for such an attention grabbing video.
No-one is saying these wind turbines are perfect, but despite what we see in this video we'd need data from both sides of the equation to make an informed decision. What might ave been catastrophic for that bird may actually be the saviour of the species.
In the same way there are people who have been permanently deafened by airbags or injured or even killed by tem going off accidentally in cars. But I'm pretty sure no sane person would argue that they are a harmful addition to a car as they have demonstrably saved many, many thousands of lives. What we're seeing in this video is the equivalent of watching an airbag go off when it shouldn't a causing a crash. It's a terrible thing for sure, but without the overall figures you can't say it means airbags are bad (or good).
Something very odd happens at the 9 second mark where the bird seems to 'jump' towards the rotors.
I'm really not sure what to make of this video.
DarkhandMaybe EIA as well.
Sorry to say but I doubt these things are killing so many birds they will go extinct.
The number of animals that have died to wind power is probably far less than the number of animals that have been killed due to fossil fuels or nuclear power even if you take into account stats over time.
bobknight33Evolution at work
cricket*kill
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