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The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data
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Etterra discuss.online Etterra@discuss.online
Joined: 2024-12-10
#52 · Quote Reply

Dude, if hard data mattered to the maga cult, Trump would never have gotten elected in the first place.
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vaultdweller013 sh.itjust.works vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-08
#53 · Quote Reply
BarneyPiccolo wrote:
A while back, I found myself driving across South Dakota, where there are plenty of fields of wind turbines. There was one about 20 years yards from the road, with a paved driveway leading to it. Curious about all of Trump's allegations, I decided to check it out, and I pulled up next to the turbine. First of all, his claim that they make lots of noise is a LIE. They make almost no noise at all...

I have heard some old ones make a good bit of noise, but those things are from like the Nixon era so I have no clue if they've always been loud. Regardless if Trump opens his insipid mouth then he is lying.
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Yaky slrpnk.net Yaky@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-10-11
#54 · (edited) Quote Reply
BarneyPiccolo wrote:
A while back, I found myself driving across South Dakota, where there are plenty of fields of wind turbines. There was one about 20 years yards from the road, with a paved driveway leading to it. Curious about all of Trump's allegations, I decided to check it out, and I pulled up next to the turbine. First of all, his claim that they make lots of noise is a LIE. They make almost no noise at all...

As article says (and IIRC from other sources) it's the offshore turbines that pose the most risk to birds, and mostly to gliding fishing birds (bald eagle, osprey) because they barely see in front of them (they are looking down) and do not expect obstacles on open water.
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matsdis piefed.social matsdis@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-17
#55 · Quote Reply
itistime wrote:
Probably hysteria, but infrasonic emissions should be considered in the engineering. I have no clue what the infrasonic signatures are like for various wind turbines setups. I have lived near industrial infrasonic generators of other sources, and I have hated it before knowing anything about it. Bottom line for me: wind powered electricity, good pollution of any kind, bad emissions are an engin...

I suspect "infrasonic emissions" are mentioned to summon the image of some scary new unknown. Except cars produce it too, at least the ones with combustion engines. It is sound. It doesn't matter if it is produced, it matters how loud it is.
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Tabula_stercore lemmy.world Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-19
#56 · Quote Reply
Pricklesthemagicfish wrote:
Fuck them birds. Now study the effects of fossil fuel and compare the two.

How do you plan to fuck them? They are not real!!
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Valmond lemmy.dbzer0.com Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-11-13
#57 · Quote Reply
chaogomu wrote:
Reading the article. Wind turbines do kill birds, but it's worse in certain areas, at certain times of year, and even certain times of day. We can plan around these known quantities. Also, guy wires and power lines can kill birds. Not quite as often, but sometimes a bird will hit the wire rather than land on it. But the main killer of birds by far is furry and has cute little claws.

And windows. Kills loads of birds.
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Axolotl feddit.it Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it
Joined: 2025-10-10
#58 · (edited) Quote Reply
huppakee wrote:
The sky is never pure white, and i'm not saying all birds will fly into them if the sky and the windmill are a perfect match. But at the same time, if it were a bright colour less birds would fly into it. Collisions will still happen. It also has to do with the blades rotating, but also that is easier to calculate when the blades are very visible. Still the best thing is to do turn them off som...

It will still kill less birds than coal and oil, and again they will still distinguish it even if it's the ssme color of the sky, very few birds will collide with it;

I DO NOT know if this image tells the truth, i don't have enough time to do a real research just for a lemmy comment so just search it up if you have more time than me
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FLP22012005 lemmy.world FLP22012005@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-23
#59 · Quote Reply
LaLuzDelSol wrote:
People saying this is some kind of hoax have not done their research. As someone who works for a renewable energy company they do hit birds (and bats, which are attracted to their low-frequency hum). I thought it was kind of nonsense before this job, but up close you realize those blades are spinning FAST. Theres nothing like them in the animal kingdom so birds arent afraid of them. There are s...

Did you read the article? It contains numbers for the amounts of birds killed by turbines. To be clear: the article does not say no birds are killed. The number just is not very relevant as compared to other dangers, such as buildings, power lines and, most importantly, cats. 4,000 birds are killed by pet cats for every bird killed by a turbine.
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Pricklesthemagicfish reddthat.com Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com
Joined: 2026-02-17
#60 · Quote Reply
Tabula_stercore wrote:
How do you plan to fuck them? They are not real!!

Ah shiite that explains why they keep dying. Im gonna stop calling my massive hog "wind turbine"
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LaLuzDelSol lemmy.world LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
#61 · Quote Reply
FLP22012005 wrote:
Did you read the article? It contains numbers for the amounts of birds killed by turbines. To be clear: the article does not say no birds are killed. The number just is not very relevant as compared to other dangers, such as buildings, power lines and, most importantly, cats. 4,000 birds are killed by pet cats for every bird killed by a turbine.

Yeah people in the comments are talking about wind turbines killing birds being a hoax though. It definitely isn't.

Another important distinction is that wind turbines disproportionately kill raptors like eagles, which are not threatened by cats.
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Slashme lemmy.world Slashme@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-24
#62 · Quote Reply
Valmond wrote:
And windows. Kills loads of birds.

Yet another reason to switch to Linux.
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Resonosity lemmy.dbzer0.com Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-07-21
#63 · Quote Reply

Source: https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=505
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zd9 lemmy.world zd9@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-18
#64 · Quote Reply
Yaky wrote:
As article says (and IIRC from other sources) it's the offshore turbines that pose the most risk to birds, and mostly to gliding fishing birds (bald eagle, osprey) because they barely see in front of them (they are looking down) and do not expect obstacles on open water.

Yes, our dear leader is such a wildlife lover that he just cares about our precious seabirds. That's what it is.
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