Small Wind Turbines Towers [RE-wrenches]

[Todd Cory, Mt. Shasta Energy Services]

I hope this is not off topic but here is the link to that story:

Birds Die by the Millions Flying into Cell Towers

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20021206.me.08.ram

Todd




"Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar" wrote:

> Did anyone catch the Towers/Bird Kill story on NPR just this morning, if not
> it probably will air again on this evenings news.
>
> What I took away from the story was this "lighted towers kill lots of birds
> in certain low visibility conditions".  I hadn't had my coffee yet so don't
> quote me on any of this.  Heck it might not have even been on NPR.  Blame it
> on CRS and all that...  They gave several documented instances where over
> 10,000 birds died in each occurrence.  One in KS and one in WI.  Something
> to do with the light making the water droplets all glow.  It sounded like
> the X-Files.  Birds would become so severely disoriented by lighted towers
> that they would fly so hard into the ground they would impale themselves on
> wheat stubble.  Suggestions by the story; don't light towers or turn the
> lights off in low visibility conditions.  That's right, turn the lights off
> in low vis conditions.  I guess low flying planes and helicopters crashing
> aren't a problem.
>
> Another wind turbine related issue:  The Audubon Society is fighting wind
> turbine development in the Flint Hills of Eastern KS.  Turns out the Prairie
> Chicken won't reproduce if can see any man made structures whilst it is
> copulating.
>
> Travis Creswell

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