Wind Turbines and Birds

Chart of the Day: Wind Turbines Don't Kill Very Many Birds

Apr. 22, 2014 - Tom Randall is fed up with hysteria over wind turbines being responsible for bird genocide. The numbers just don't support it:

The estimates above are used in promotional videos by Vestas Wind Systems, the world's biggest turbine maker. However, they originally came from a study by the U.S. Forest Service and are similar to numbers used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wildlife Society — earnest defenders of birds and bats. ....It’s nice for wind-farm planners to take migration patterns and endangered habitats into account. But even if wind turbines were to double in size and provide 100 percent of our energy needs (both of which defy the laws of physics as we currently understand them), they still wouldn’t compare to the modern scourges of high-tension power lines or buildings with glass windows. Not even close. read more>>>