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Re:Increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce a... by mech987 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:15PM (#32653918)
That 20,000 number is off by at least an order of magnitude just for US bird wind turbine deaths. Turbine construction has been accelerating, so the 2013 numbers cited below are low.

https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/

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Re:Increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce a... by InitialLastName on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:32PM (#32654094)
Even off by an order of magnitude, it's still 2 OOM below GP's rate for fossil fuels.
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