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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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