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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by chasing on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:47AM (#14172775)
http://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe-...

I didn't realize that was such a big issue. Over time, humanity will figure out ways of making wind turbines less of a danger to birds.

In the mean time, I would assume that wind power still remains a net positive for the overall environment versus coal, etc.

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by tim333 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:54AM (#14172821)
>Over time, humanity will figure out ways of making wind turbines less of a danger to birds.

Or the birds will evolve to dislike wind turbines.

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:40PM (#14173633)
I'd assume this is the case, as birds already use the earth's magnetic field for navigation and wind turbines generate a significant magnetic field.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by maxerickson on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:37PM (#14173979)
Detecting a small field while flying at 10-15 meters / second (30 miles per hour) might not be possible with whatever they use to detect the wider field.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:02PM (#14174122)
Bookmarked to research.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by Gibbon1 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:05PM (#14175086)
There is a niche market for drones to scare away birds from airports. Would not be a far stretch to use more advanced models to herd birds away from windmills.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by sgustard on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:28PM (#14174270)
Just turn the problem around and replace large turbines with mini-turbines attached to the birds themselves. As they fly they charge, um, small batteries that they carry around and then periodically return to dropoff stations. OK I'm still working out some of the kinks.
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