Bird kills [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

Lawrence, you have a small machine. Big raptors mainly impact big machines.
Your experience relates to your machine, not others, but you're right
anyway; way more birds eat it hitting windows, cars and power lines. And yet
this is definitely not a BS issue, at least not according to some very vocal
opponents. Saying it doesn't happen doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Elliott" <larry at energyoutfitters.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: Bird kills [RE-wrenches]


>
> Okay guy's. Try this one on for size.
>
> I have a Bergey 1500 on an 80 foot guyed tower.
> Just over the hill from me is the largest bald eagle nesting grounds in
> the lower 48. It is a virtual flyway for thousands of endangered and not
> endangered birds.
> In four and one half years of operation of this high speed "Popeel Meat
> Grinder and Slice and Dice I have seen exactly zero birds at the base.
> Yet I regularly get at least one bird kill per month on the fairly small
> window to the south of my home.
> So I should tear out the window or the turbine?
> I will say though that about a year ago I had a
> sh.................eating grin on my face as the local utility service
> crew tried to get service back to my neighbors (who by the way were
> without power as I watched a video) who lost it due to a large Blue
> Heron who became a Pop Tart  because of the large wing span on the three
> phase high line out along the river.
> About three months later I was designing a backup for Tom the lineman.
>
>
> Wind turbines kill birds?
>
> I say bullshit.
> I say that is just a "red herring" like so much else we have to deal
> with from left and right and others living happily inside the cozy box
> they have contructed for their minds.
>
>
> See Michael I did not once mention the dreaded FC or H word ;-)
>
> Larry Elliott
>
>
> > Perhaps, those who are concerned about wind re killing birds, should
> turn their attention to the dead oil soaked birds on the coast of Spain
> and Portugal. Smitty.
> >
> > Joel Davidson wrote:
> >
> > > Wind Wrenches only,
> > > I haven't had a wind machine since 1978, but more birds bounced off
> my mountain home picture window than ever landed on my tower. I never
> met a person who actually saw a dead bird at the base of a wind machine.
> How many dead birds at the base of wind machines have you guys actually
> seen? Where? What species?
> > > Best regards,
> > > Joel Davidson
> > > "A bird in the hand makes blowing your nose difficult."
> > >
> > > Jeff Oldham wrote:
>
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