"It kills thousands of times fewer birds than coal smoke does, and steam from power generator cooling towers do. It kills fewer birds than reflective glass buildings do. If we could replace all coal with wind today, it would save far more birds than it kills. It would also save roughly 20,000 human lives per year. That is how many people are killed by coal smoke particulates."
Sure, but if the rate of windmill capacity doubled 7 more times or so, I wouldn't want to be a bird. I also have this weird fear that we might create a drag that slows the spin of the earth's rotation. :D On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Wind is terrific as well, however it's pretty hard to improve the tech all >> that rapidly like solar. >> > > It is still moving ahead pretty quickly. Especially offshore > installations. In Northern Europe North Sea offshore installations could > produce 4 times more electricity than Europe consumes. The North Sea is > shallow. > > > >> It also kills birds . . . >> > > It kills thousands of times fewer birds than coal smoke does, and steam > from power generator cooling towers do. It kills fewer birds than > reflective glass buildings do. If we could replace all coal with wind > today, it would save far more birds than it kills. It would also save > roughly 20,000 human lives per year. That is how many people are killed by > coal smoke particulates. > > - Jed > >
