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I wonder what paint job would best prevent birds from being destroyed by this. It looks like sometimes one blade is painted black for this purpose. How do bird
by windows2020 3y ago
I wonder what paint job would best prevent birds from being destroyed by this. It looks like sometimes one blade is painted black for this purpose.
How do bird deaths from wind turbines compare to other manmade objects?
- throwbadubadu 3y agoInsignificant on many levels. If we should care for that we should stop all fossil fuel consumption right now, stop eating meat, and most importantly, stop putting glass windows into our cute buildings. Why are these questions always in wind turbine posts before anything els?
- mirko22 3y agoCos some people care about birds? How does eating meat factor into this?
- erulabs 3y agoBecause ostensibly global warming and climate change is of far more existential threat than localized turbines. Wind power could possibly save all birds, at the cost of some birds. It’s similar to when a self driving car gets into an accident - all hand wringing and no looking at broader statistics.
- thinkcontext 3y agoMost people who bring up birds wrt wind turbines don't care about birds, eg Donald Trump.
- adrianmonk 3y agoWell, if the meat is chicken or turkey...
- canadianfella 3y ago[dead]
- Qem 3y ago> Why are these questions always in wind turbine posts before anything els? Because it's better to worry about it and try to mitigate at the beginning, than wait until there is too much inertia, sunken costs, vested interests and institutional pushback. Some things become too hard to fix if you start wrong.
- el_benhameen 3y agoFolks who worry about this have an excellent outlet for their concerns: don’t have outdoor cats, and donate and work to spay and neuter feral outdoor cats. They are orders of magnitude more destructive to the bird population than wind turbines will ever be.
- windows2020 3y agoIf wind turbines were the number one bird killer, wouldn't figuring out the best color to paint the blades or other mitigation strategies be worth it?
- tedunangst 3y agoThere will always be a number one bird killer, unless no birds die ever.
- mig39 3y agoDo wind turbines kill more birds than cats?
- moffkalast 3y agoLooking at this source [0] they kill about as many birds in a year as we eat chickens in a week, i.e. ~1 million. 7 times as many are killed by cell towers, 80x as many by cars, and up to 1000x as many by cats. Maybe they should put cat ears on turbines and people would be fine with them. [0] https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/renewables/weekly-data-how-many-birds-are-really-killed-by-wind-turbines/ https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/renewables/weekly-data-how...
- matkoniecz 3y ago> If wind turbines were the number one bird killer They are not.
- nerdbert 3y agoThey're not even the number ten bird killer.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoIt's offshore, so it provides surface area for marine life to live on. Fish can eat that algae, and birds can eat those fish.
- gWPVhyxPHqvk 3y agoBird deaths from wind turbines are essentially a rounding error, probably less than a million a year. On the other hand, cats kill billions of birds per year.
- windows2020 3y agoIt would be interesting to see the number of animals killed by power source per unit of energy.
- not_your_mentat 3y agoI have it on good authority that birds aren't real.
- askvictor 3y agoWe should really stop building skyscrapers, as they cause plenty of birth deaths too. And stop destroying their habitat, and changing the climate which is destroying their migratory air currents and on-route stop-overs. TLDR: there are plenty of direct and indirect things that cause a _lot_ more bird deaths. Don't let perfect get in the way of good.
- rstuart4133 3y agoPainting one blade black reduces bird fatalities by 70%: https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2022/black-turbine-blades-reduce-bird-collisions https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2022/b...