US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries to Revive Coal Industry

Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ... by piquadrat on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:10AM (#17807918)

Is it me or does that article not even try to fact check Trumps assertion that wind mills are killing fields for birds? What a piss poor try at "journalism".

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...

tl;dr: wind mills kill something like 10'000-40'000 birds per year, compared to e.g. cars at 60-80 million, and cats in the hundreds of millions.

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Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ... by kraigie on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:15AM (#17807945)

Also United States in 2006 but nuclear plants killed about 327,000 and fossil-fuelled power plants 14.5 million. In other words, for every one bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel powered plants killed 2,118 birds. You would think that would be journalism worthy.

Plus Windmills only tend to kill birds in high numbers when built in migration paths.

Fortunately it's a bit easier to build them else where and send electricity than it is to relocate highways.

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Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ... by Zealotux on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:34AM (#17808021)

I'm wondering if it's truly fair to compare raw figures, I'd assume that you need to take in account the number of birds killed compared to the energy produced, as far as I know wind turbine are a very small part of energy production in the US.

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