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Re:The University of California has all but dropped carbon o... by tokai on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:07AM (#38475184)
>How many animals get killed by wind farms roughly?

Half a million a year in the US. Maybe.

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

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Re:The University of California has all but dropped carbon o... by InitialLastName on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:33AM (#38475516)
For complete context, that's out of 7.2 billion birds in the US [0]. So 7 per 100k per year.

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2019/09/20/bird-population-decrea...

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