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Article #9Re: Wind Farms: Do they kill birds?
From: Day Brown
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:31
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:31
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I find it hard to believe that those birds which survive or avoid wind towers will not.... evolve. End of problem. There is the economy of scale to consider. The cost/watt for a 15kw unit is not much higher than that of a 20 megwatt tower. But the 15kw job can be in the neighborhood or village that uses the power, so the cost of transmission lines is dramatically reduced. If the new aluminum/gallium hydrogen generators work out as advertised, then the excess windpower can be stored, and the whole system becomes local, much more competitive in the free market, and sustainable as well as financially rewarding to small investors. Big business and big government love big installations like windfarms where there is less free market competition and they are more able to dictate the price.
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