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

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. >...You know you can set up solar panels on roofs, The levelized cost for residential rooftop solar is at least as high as nuclear, but that cost doesn't seem to matter to some advocates. >...and in the desert, right? Advocates also describe how we will rebuild the electrical grid to move vast amounts of solar or wind power across the USA. This will not be cheap or easy or particularly easy to protect from terrorism. Even the relatively small proposed Tres Amos SuperStation hasn’t been completed yet. This cost doesn't seem to matter to some advocates.