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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by enraged_camel on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:04PM (#14174138)
How many birds do coal plants poison and kill? I bet you never thought about that simply because those deaths aren't violent and sudden.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by Can_Not on Saturday April 22, 2017 @08:52PM (#14175794)
This is an important point. Birds die orders of magnitudes faster from respiratory failures caused by coal's pollution.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by thinkloop on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:01AM (#14176794)
I doubt that's true. Birds probably live away from coal plants like humans.
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by bildung on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:08AM (#14177100)
Bird deaths from coal are 40 times higher than those from wind: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*FlgPzNwGlNYMtFSy.j...

source: https://thinkprogress.org/chart-how-many-birds-are-killed-by...

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by mavhc on Sunday April 23, 2017 @07:57AM (#14177808)
Would be best to give birds killed per MWh, for each country
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