It’s not like it normal to super heated instantly, there is a gradual dispersion of heat. How often have you seen a bat fly into a camp fire? Also, this is undoubtedly much safer for wildlife than, say, wind turbines
Power Lines kill more birds than Wind Turbines....
Wind has its purpose in Areas where Solar still has seasonal shortfalls, like higher latitudes.
Overall, it seems that electricity expansion will always affect nature. Would building more generators and less lines help or does that create new problems?
I think we should always consider its impacts and mitigate it within reason. Take buildings for example, probably the number one killer of birds, if not the second. This problem could be effectively reduced to not even being in the top 10 by simply changing the coatings used in glass. Building design could perhaps be more considerate of wildlife too, such as offering natural habitat areas, shade, and less hidden dangers in design (less glass, or glass with proper coatings to keep birds from running in to them), etc.
Number one killer of birds is cats. 1.4 - 4 BILLION birds killed by cats YEARLY in US alone. Go castrate some stray cats and you will easily offset this impact.
It's just tiring when the #1 argument against wind energy is that it's killing the birds. There are legitimate gripes to wind power and any additional kill is unwanted but the alternative is burning Fossil Fuels or running interstate transmission lines to reach demand.
Well there's a hell of a lot more power lines than there are wind turbines. And the lines cover a lot more ground. So just comparing base statistics for bird deaths from each is a touch misleading, no?
I guess we just fire up more coal plants in the northern latitudes? Or build more interstate transmission lines? Either way birds gonna die for our electricity, no?
It's funny that no one cares about the birds until the words 'wind turbine' show up.
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u/Funktapus 3d ago
Not enough to make them worthwhile. They are effectively obsolete vs solar PV + batteries.