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I'm not sure how to interpret these statistics. Since it's given per 10000 fatalities (and not per square meter covered in said obstacle), can't you conclude th
by acchow 4y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret these statistics. Since it's given per 10000 fatalities (and not per square meter covered in said obstacle), can't you conclude that the wind turbine fatalities are so low because we haven't deployed many of them? Whereas there are tons of buildings?
- conductr 4y agoThis is my thought. What happens when we have 10 million wind turbines out in the wild?
- clnq 4y agoI suppose that if fewer than 1/10000 birds are killed by an X number of wind turbines, then we could guesstimate that fewer than 1/5000 birds will be killed by 2X number of wind turbines in a given area. Of course, many other factors are probably involved in any kind of practical estimation. Densities of turbines and wind farms are probably important. There's also the aspect of birds learning to avoid these turbines over time, and the question of whether we can/would do something to make these turbines easier for birds to avoid. For the latter, we have a lot of creative solutions recently - https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/wind-farm-eagle-deaths-cut-by-82-as-smart-cameras-spot-birds-then-halt-turbines/2-1-953479 https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/wind-farm-eagle-deaths-cut..., https://vortexbladeless.com/technology/ https://vortexbladeless.com/technology/, https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/May_EcolEvol_2020.pdf https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/May....
- bckygldstn 4y agoWind power accounts for about 10% of total generation in the US. So even if turbines were added to account for 100% generation, and demand increased 10x, it'd still be far less than anything else on the list.
- acchow 4y agoI had no idea wind accounted for 3x the power generation of solar. I always thought it was the other way around...