Wind turbines use alot of rare earth elements such as neodymium. This has created two problems. One alot of acid water and radioactive waste is created from mining it. Two were running out of readily available neodymium, which means they're going to get significantly more expensive. If you actually give a shit about the environment, hydro and nuclear are the only legit solutions.
Ok if you want facts you would know that wind turbines the biggest and most high tech can if in the greatest weather conditions supply 1500 average european houses while a power plant that is taking up less space and is not dependent on weather will 720,000 houses. This takes up less space considering the space that a field of wind turbines will take up. It would take 480 wind turbines in the best conditions being an appropriate space away to equal one nuclear power plant. That is with optimal conditions. https://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/US-Nuclear-Power-Plants http://www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/
They are more likely to kill birds if they are placed in areas where there are heavy flights during migration. So, like @famousone said, if they are put in areas where birds don't particularly travel over, it's basically problem solved.
We went through the bird thing in like the 15 comments where i had people correct me when i was making a joke cause tbh i had no idea birds were getting killed by turbines.
The joke was that wind turbines were inferior to the power plant because they are killing the birds I was trying to set up for the 2nd comment where i would say you can dislike me but it wont bring the birds back.
So you quiz me on the aspects of my joke that makes it a joke and then you throw in a line like oh i didnt realize you misunderstood jokes. Like dude you coming on a post repeating some bull crap fact after i explained I was trying to tell a joke and start this big conversation after it was settled man you just trying to get attention im out of here.
Dr Matthew Wood, “Macarthur Wind Farm, Bat and Avifauna Mortality Monitoring, March 2013
to February 2014” June 2014, Victoria Australia
D.Johnson, S.Loss, S.Smallwood, W.Erikson, “Avian fatalities at wind energy facilities in North
America: a comparison of recent approaches”, Human Wildlife Interactions, Spring2016, Vol. 10
Issue 1, p7-18. 12p.
R. Green, R Langston, A, Mcliskie, R.Sutherland, J.Wilson, “Lack of sound science in assessing
wind farm impacts on seabirds” Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 53, Issue 6
December 2016 Pages 1635–1641 July 2016
1 of them is north america not world wide and i was kinda hoping i could click on them to actually look at the research and reasoning. I doubt that the bottom one being seabirds is really taking into account the world also north american and Australia isnt the whole world either i will attempt to look these up but with no link it will be annoying but ill see what i can find.
"368,000 fatalities for all bird species are caused annually by collisions with wind turbines." https://www.science.gov/topicpages/w/wind+energy+facilities This is what your middle source said about north america deaths for birds. or at least it is where it took me. For the U.S. and canada.
(not mexico). Canada has about 6,000 turbines http://canwea.ca/wind-energy/installed-capacity/ that still means that your 3 birds a a turbine is closer to 6,6 birds that turbines kill still and if you were using that source you would know you are in fact wrong. https://spotidoc.com/doc/650848/macarthur-wind-farm-bat-and-avifauna-mortality your first one just brings me to a blank page so idk about that. I still have yet to see your world wide statistics that prove bird fatalities to be 3 a turbine a year.
Uhhh why couldent u have said some stuff about history that's my favorite subject and I didn't really learn much from dat chat it was just interesting to see u guys fight about birds and windmills
http://www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/
This one claims that it could actually be higher. http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-10-20-times-more-than-previously-thought.html
to February 2014” June 2014, Victoria Australia
D.Johnson, S.Loss, S.Smallwood, W.Erikson, “Avian fatalities at wind energy facilities in North
America: a comparison of recent approaches”, Human Wildlife Interactions, Spring2016, Vol. 10
Issue 1, p7-18. 12p.
R. Green, R Langston, A, Mcliskie, R.Sutherland, J.Wilson, “Lack of sound science in assessing
wind farm impacts on seabirds” Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 53, Issue 6
December 2016 Pages 1635–1641 July 2016
(not mexico). Canada has about 6,000 turbines http://canwea.ca/wind-energy/installed-capacity/ that still means that your 3 birds a a turbine is closer to 6,6 birds that turbines kill still and if you were using that source you would know you are in fact wrong. https://spotidoc.com/doc/650848/macarthur-wind-farm-bat-and-avifauna-mortality your first one just brings me to a blank page so idk about that. I still have yet to see your world wide statistics that prove bird fatalities to be 3 a turbine a year.