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'Bladeless' Wind Turbine Spares Birds

Posted September 05, 2012 8:42 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

This wind turbine invention spares birds and bats while remaining quiet and scalable.

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09/05/2012 6:07 PM

I really don't think the dead bird argument carries much weight.

Window collisions1,000,000,000
Powerline collisions174,000,000
Hunting100,000,000
House cats100,000,000
Pesticides67,000,000
Automobile collisions60,000,000
Communication towers40,000,000
Oil extraction1,000,000
Wind turbines6,400

http://www.skepticblog.org/2010/01/07/wind-turbines-and-birds-the-cuisinarts-of-the-skies/

Heck one drunk idiot killed almost 11 times that in one night.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/02/drunk-man-cuts-power-on-farm-kills-70000-chickens/

Or don't chickens count as birds any more?

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09/05/2012 11:23 PM

Cool; I wonder if he could build one for tidal channels that wouldn't kill sea life?

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