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The kind of bird is important. Many more songbirds are taken by cats it’s true but their numbers aren’t in danger. Wind turbines impact mainly larger birds such
by gcheong 5y ago
The kind of bird is important. Many more songbirds are taken by cats it’s true but their numbers aren’t in danger. Wind turbines impact mainly larger birds such as raptors that don’t reproduce as quickly. The problem is such that a wind farm might be allowed a single kill before fines or being shut down and some places are trying to develop early warning systems to shut down a turbine if a bird is detected. Seems a long way around to go just for a single type of renewable when you could most likely solve most problems with nuclear.
- stewbrew 5y agoWild life would totally benefit from nuclear power. This is often overlooked by environmentalists. Look at Tschernobyl. It's like hitting the reset button and removing humans (a bug, not a feature) from the equation.
- nine_k 5y agoNuclear has two problems: high cost due to lack of scale, and bad publicity. The crazy people which produced the Chernobyl disaster not only directly killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands, they turned the whole idea of nuclear power generation into a hobgoblin. The "nuclear waste" is still mostly fuel, it can be processed and burned further. But this involves, among other things, producing and extracting plutonium (which itself is a fine nuclear fuel), and thus some suspicion of producing more nuclear weapons.
- nmz 5y agoChernobyl and everything else here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...