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Those having difficulty seeing the problem are focusing in the wrong places.

The cell tower situation is a good example. When cell phones proliferated exponentially, no one was prepared for a rapid deployment of cell towers everywhere and environmental agencies had to begin regulating after-the-fact. It turned out that there were several things happening with the birds. The guy wire issue was a significant one with a couple of solutions. Birds that can see the tower itself a long way off may actually focus their eyes on that distant object and thereby miss focusing on the wires until they're right on top of them. The FWS began recommending that, instead of every cell company building its own towers, they share cell towers and if possible lease transceiver space on other sorts of existing towers. They also recommended using monopole towers w/o any guy wires at all.

Another thing being missed in this thread is that most bird strikes occur under conditions of poor visibility. The worst case is at night and in foggy conditions. The aviation warning lights atop the taller towers seem to attract, then confuse, birds. I saw this occur one foggy night at a well location southeast of Falfurrias; every horizontal piece of the drilling rig was littered with little bodies, and a coot fell at our feet on the drilling floor.

Thus, my prediction is that when the proper research is finally conducted on the wind farms, it will be discovered that the wind turbine blades are deadlier to birds when they aren't moving, especially at night and in a fog, than they are in broad daylight and rotating at the max. Of course, if they've already built beau-coup farms in harm's way at billions of dollars a pop, the birds will just be SOL.

I'm not saying NIMBY, I'm saying fools rush in. We can and should take the time to find the right locations before we invest gigabucks and commit ourselves to easily avoidable mayhem. There may be other downsides we haven't even guessed at yet.
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[iflyabeech]

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If you knew you might minimize the harm of any technology, why wouldn't you take the time to look for ways to do that? There are necessary evils and unnecessary evils. Wouldn't you prefer to know which is which before making a choice?

The sin is in not caring what damage we may do before we do it. It's ironic having to explain that since previous energy technologies led to global warming and now we're trying to get out the mess with this new one.

"We have met the enemy and he is us." --- Pogo
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[iflyabeech]

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Give up on that propaganda. Even EXXON has stopped funding it.
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[iflyabeech]

[subsailor]

so... how the fishing lately.....lol
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[iflyabeech]

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[Big Ed]

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So windfarms are clean, efficient and cheap. Over 20% of San Antonio energy is now being produced using windfarms, and the number is climbing.

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Big John,
Where did you get these numbers? CPS website says that CPS "hopes" to have 15% of of it's power from renewable sources by 2020. Current production is a small percentage of that 15% goal for the future.
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"A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need advice.", Bill Cosby

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[Big John]

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[iflyabeech]

I question the motives behind these so-called "scientists!" They pay too much attention themselves to politics and less attention to science.

I believe we are a society who is too worried about hurting anything to actually help anything.
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