Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling

Re:Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas dr... by osigurdson on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:04AM (#38968841)

Agree. Usually it doesn't blow up but sometimes does. When it does, all of the squirrels in the area get 3 eyes and 5 legs.

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Re:Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas dr... by smileysteve on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:55AM (#38969561)

More accurately they suffer defects and die.

Then there is Chernobyl which now has healthier and more diverse wildlife than much of the world because humans have evacuated.

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Re:Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas dr... by osigurdson on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:24AM (#38969991)

Chernobyl was good then?

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Re:Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas dr... by smileysteve on Friday January 12, 2024 @02:21PM (#38972627)

In the micro, no, see the part about death.

In the macro, it created a nature preserve that humans will barely visit, won't hunt in, won't deforest; and requires no active enforcement to keep that way.

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Re:Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas dr... by osigurdson on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:32PM (#38976791)

So positive NPV in a sense?

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Re:Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas dr... by adastra22 on Friday January 12, 2024 @10:22PM (#38977033)

You have a strange, anti human morality.

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