Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2018 17:20:42 GMT
The CDAO opposes the use of Wind Turbine Farms or Wave Energy Buoy Farms in Oregon’s offshore ocean waters at Coos Bay or any coastal location. Wind Farms kill 10 to 20 more birds and bats than previously thought.
Summary of our opinion of Wind Turbine Farms: Wind Turbine Farms Kill Hundreds of Thousands of birds each year as based on the following study.
From Rose Eveleth at smithsonian.com on December 16, 2013: One of the most commonly repeated criticisms of wind power is that it kills birds. The giant spinning turbines are basically bird death traps—and often they cut through prime flying space, making the carnage even worse. At least that’s the story. But how many birds really do die?
Of course, they didn’t go to each turbine and count how many little feathered bodies they found at the base. Instead, they combed the literature for all the studies they could find on bird deaths, and tried to combine them into an estimate. This meant searching for fun things like “‘bird AND wind turbine’ with ‘collision,’ ‘mortality, ‘fatality,’ ‘carcass,’ and ‘post-construction.‘” And then—even more cheerful—searching all those terms again, but “with ‘bird’ replaced by ‘avian’ and ‘wildlife’; and ‘turbine’ replaced by ‘farm,’ ‘facility’ and ‘energy.’”
In the end, using 58 mortality estimates that met their criteria, they came up with an estimate. According to the current literature somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines. That’s not all, explains the blog Natural Reactions:
Read more: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-wind-turbines-really-kill-180948154/#byZhFvVpUd421jXI.99
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Summary of our opinion of Wave Buoys: The Effects from the infrastructure of Wave Buoys change the physiological values associated with the marine organisms common to the smooth bottoms off of the Oregon coast jeopardizing the ecological productivity of their existence. The risks are not worth the reward.
Summary of our opinion of Wind Turbine Farms: Wind Turbine Farms Kill Hundreds of Thousands of birds each year as based on the following study.
From Rose Eveleth at smithsonian.com on December 16, 2013: One of the most commonly repeated criticisms of wind power is that it kills birds. The giant spinning turbines are basically bird death traps—and often they cut through prime flying space, making the carnage even worse. At least that’s the story. But how many birds really do die?
Of course, they didn’t go to each turbine and count how many little feathered bodies they found at the base. Instead, they combed the literature for all the studies they could find on bird deaths, and tried to combine them into an estimate. This meant searching for fun things like “‘bird AND wind turbine’ with ‘collision,’ ‘mortality, ‘fatality,’ ‘carcass,’ and ‘post-construction.‘” And then—even more cheerful—searching all those terms again, but “with ‘bird’ replaced by ‘avian’ and ‘wildlife’; and ‘turbine’ replaced by ‘farm,’ ‘facility’ and ‘energy.’”
In the end, using 58 mortality estimates that met their criteria, they came up with an estimate. According to the current literature somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines. That’s not all, explains the blog Natural Reactions:
Read more: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-wind-turbines-really-kill-180948154/#byZhFvVpUd421jXI.99
Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! bit.ly/1cGUiGv
Follow us: @smithsonianmag on Twitter
Summary of our opinion of Wave Buoys: The Effects from the infrastructure of Wave Buoys change the physiological values associated with the marine organisms common to the smooth bottoms off of the Oregon coast jeopardizing the ecological productivity of their existence. The risks are not worth the reward.
