Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀Mar 3, 2023

A new study about seabirds and offshore wind turbines may surprise you.

A two-year, €3 million study of seabirds at an offshore wind farm off Scotland combined radar data with cameras to identify the species of seabird and create a three-dimensional image of birds’ flight patterns and how they avoid offshore wind turbines’ rotor blades.

The study’s findings: Not a single collision between a bird and a rotor blade was recorded.

https://electrek.co/2023/03/02/seabirds-and-offshore-wind-turbines-vattenfall/

A new study about seabirds and offshore wind turbines may surprise you

Swedish power giant Vattenfall did a two-year, €3 million study of seabirds at an offshore wind farm off Scotland – here’s what it found.

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Show threadSharonbw stands with MinnesotaMar 3, 2023

@bascule

Preach! The people here on the Eastern Shore of MD are using every excuse in the book to stop wind turbines off the coast. They have been pushing the "turbines harm the birds" narrative for a while now. Recently they have grabbed onto the fact that many whales along the east coast have beached + died this winter. They are blaming turbines, even though none are erected yet + agencies such as NOAA have said collisions by ships is the most likely culprit.

Show threadThe Frog
@Sharonbw @bascule I really struggle to understand how normal folks *who gain absolutely nothing* from our current fossil fuel based energy production go to some lengths to protest against better alternatives...
Mar 4, 2023 at 11:05amWeb
Show threadecsdMar 5, 2023

@Lily_and_Frog @Sharonbw @bascule

I suggest it's because people implicitly recognize that it's all a house of cards. That if "we" can end the fossil fuel industry, we can end much more (and have to pay attention to the need to): the military-industrial complex, the security state, the CIA and FBI, the defense budget, endless wars, corporate predation, you know, all that stuff.

"I'd rather live out the rest of my days living in the comfortable matrix being killed only slowly, than risk the various convulsions that have to happen to truly liberate humankind." Something like that.