silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · edit-227 days agoThe man behind the fall of US offshore windwww.canarymedia.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkThe man behind the fall of US offshore windwww.canarymedia.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · edit-227 days agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·27 days agoThis summer I walked into a large windmill farm to count all the dead birds with my daughter. Across 20 mills, we counted an average of zero dead birds.
minus-squareMrMakabar@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·27 days agoTurns out birds are smart enough to understand that the blades can kill them. So they avoid flying into them.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days agoSomewhat. It is possible to have poor siting, which people found out after deploying the first wind farms.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-227 days agoToo bad they are confused by windows :(
minus-squareTheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoTo be fair, if can’t fly through why see through? Is a pretty rational bird-take
minus-squareTheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·27 days agoThis tells me nothing man. There could have been 10,000 dead birds at one plant, and they just had negative 1000 dead birds at 10 pthers
This summer I walked into a large windmill farm to count all the dead birds with my daughter. Across 20 mills, we counted an average of zero dead birds.
Turns out birds are smart enough to understand that the blades can kill them. So they avoid flying into them.
Somewhat. It is possible to have poor siting, which people found out after deploying the first wind farms.
Too bad they are confused by windows :(
To be fair, if can’t fly through why see through? Is a pretty rational bird-take
This tells me nothing man. There could have been 10,000 dead birds at one plant, and they just had negative 1000 dead birds at 10 pthers