Plus one for burning seagulls, and that seagull photo looks a bit suspicious to me.
Also, http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbine-kill-birds.htm
Compared with the number of birds and other wildlife killed by motor vehicles this is insignificant. Ban trucks and cars first.
The birds should've worn helmets.
what would be an acceptable level of avian mortality to generate energy using less environmentally damaging/more sustainable means than fossil fuel?
er, you tell me?
I'm sure that most people would agree that some sort of scale exists, from 'wind-turbines are pointless, any harm to wildlife is excessive' at one end, to 'diced sea-eagle pie please! - cooked in an oven powered by wind!' at the other.
i suspect my views place me at the more sceptical end...
...that seagull photo looks a bit suspicious to me.
ask the woman who took the photo:
Marian Cleary – who Tweets as @soundwords
i suppose the (ex) sea-eagle is photo-shopped too?
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#goodlordiagreewithdelingpole
Not wanting to be skeptical but the turbine would have to have exceptionally sharp blades and be rotating at a fair old pace to slice the head clean off a seagull.
Nnnnnnnnnot really. Think the tips of the blades are pretty quick (I can't do the science). IIRC there's some famous footage of a freefalling skydiver cutting another skydiver in half, such was the speed of their impact.
[Edit]: one skydiver's arm cut through both the other guy's legs. A combined speed of 300mph, apparently...
Now that's an image I did not want
Ban jet engines they cremate whole flocks in one go.
I don't think the seagull is photoshopped but I'd like to see the rest of the bird. The head suggests the rest of the thing was eaten.
And how is one of them blokes not wearing them wings proclaiming wind turbines give you wings?
Think the tips of the blades are pretty quick
I've just read some blurb stating up to 179mph at the tips
Perhaps if the birds took the time to read the blurb themselves they wouldn't be so gung-ho.
Next time, it could be a baby robin's face sliced clean off.
😆That rare bird was already thousands of miles off course. It didn't exactly have a track record for paying attention did it?
According to this
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachuting
head down terminal velocity is around 200mph, so how did two skydivers falling together attain a combined speed of 300 mph?
Is seagull head not more likely to be the result of a scavenger, rather than turbine decapitation?
Great idea to staple cats to turbines, could we include Dellingpole as well?
kcr - Member
...how did two skydivers falling together attain a combined speed of 300 mph?
if one of them's on a treadmill?
Edukator - MemberI'd like to see the rest of the bird. The head suggests the rest of the thing was eaten.
you don't have to google very far:
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the bad location of wind turbines in Tarifa, that place in Norway with the eagles and some of the US farms isn't a secret, and people have learnt from the mistakes. There has been a stack of research from Norway into the interactions of birds and turbines. It is interesting how people latch onto one bird being killed, when thousands upon thousands die from oil spills alone without batting many eyelids.
There is a vid on youtube of a vulture climbing the thermals at Tarifa and going into a turbine blade for those who are into the gory pics, it's a bit sad to watch.
head down terminal velocity is around 200mph, so how did two skydivers falling together attain a combined speed of 300 mph?
one of them landed on a bouncy castle and was on the way back up at 100 mph
you don't have to google very far:
That looks like someone's back yard, couldn't even have been a big turbine if so!?
Yep, sort of a medium sized jobby.
Edit: not someone's yard. Considering where the photo of the turbine was taken something of a close call.
Not as close as the Seagulls
According to this
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachuting
head down terminal velocity is around 200mph, so how did two skydivers falling together attain a combined speed of 300 mph?
They were riding a plane on a conveyor belt.
That's laughable, twitchers flock from all over the country burning fossil fuels and when they get there they moan about a Green Energy wind turbine killing a dickie bird WTF !
So it's OK to help pollute the environment but then moan when they chase a helpless bird into a giant fan !
I'd make them all stay there for another 30 odd years till another one turns up ! See if they learn a lesson,
Fastest diving bird my arse! That was a lass I met at Uni. She could trip a lad up and be under him before he hit the floor !
IGMC
head down terminal velocity is around 200mph, so how did two skydivers falling together attain a combined speed of 300 mph?
They were riding a plane on a conveyor belt.
[b]Duh![/b] opposite directions wasn't it - one going up, the other going down!
Hard to compare invisibly mucking up the climate and slicing the odd bird
The bird was probably doomed. Nothing a twitcher likes better than some poor thing flapping about exhausted miles off course
