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The whole animal deaths from windmills is a misinformation campaign Cats kill 900M birds a year, windows 200M a year, cell towers 7M a year, oil fields 1M a ye

The whole animal deaths from windmills is a misinformation campaign Cats kill 900M birds a year, windows 200M a year, cell towers 7M a year, oil fields 1M a year Windmills kill ~300k a year and that can be reduced 70% by painting one blade black And you know what else kills birds and animals more? Climate change ..

aeternum 6y ago
But how many birds does nuclear kill?
- imtringued 6y ago
  Depending on the coolant method it can kill a lot of fish. A single plant may kill thousands per day. It's worse than coal in that regard.
opo 6y ago
>...Windmills kill ~300k a year That is a low estimate: >...The most comprehensive and statistically sound estimates show that bird deaths from turbine collisions are between 140,000 and 500,000 birds per year. As wind energy capacity increases under the DOE’s mandate (a six-fold increase from current levels), statistical models predict that mean bird deaths resulting in collisions with turbines could reach 1.4 million birds/year. Though the issue isn't so much the number of birds, but the type: >...Although fatality rates for raptors may be lower compared to passerines, raptors are especially vulnerable to collisions due to their flight behaviors. Given the life history traits of raptors (i.e., long-lived and low reproductive rates) their populations are more at risk of decline from the number of different sources of impacts that affect these species on a daily basis. https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/collisions/wind-turbines.php https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/... This isn't to say that means we should drop wind, but we shouldn't hand wave away the issue and pretend it is not an issue. >...that can be reduced 70% by painting one blade black A lot of different techniques have been used to try and limit bird deaths and painting blades a different color is one of them, but it doesn't reduce deaths by 70%.

aeternum 6y ago

But how many birds does nuclear kill?

imtringued 6y ago
Depending on the coolant method it can kill a lot of fish. A single plant may kill thousands per day. It's worse than coal in that regard.

opo 6y ago

>...Windmills kill ~300k a year That is a low estimate: >...The most comprehensive and statistically sound estimates show that bird deaths from turbine collisions are between 140,000 and 500,000 birds per year. As wind energy capacity increases under the DOE’s mandate (a six-fold increase from current levels), statistical models predict that mean bird deaths resulting in collisions with turbines could reach 1.4 million birds/year. Though the issue isn't so much the number of birds, but the type: >...Although fatality rates for raptors may be lower compared to passerines, raptors are especially vulnerable to collisions due to their flight behaviors. Given the life history traits of raptors (i.e., long-lived and low reproductive rates) their populations are more at risk of decline from the number of different sources of impacts that affect these species on a daily basis. https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/collisions/wind-turbines.php https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/... This isn't to say that means we should drop wind, but we shouldn't hand wave away the issue and pretend it is not an issue. >...that can be reduced 70% by painting one blade black A lot of different techniques have been used to try and limit bird deaths and painting blades a different color is one of them, but it doesn't reduce deaths by 70%.