This is not a post about Sesame Street or the Childrens Television Workshop.
No, this is about a literal big bird, a griffon vulture, and its unfortunate failure to maintain separation from a large power-generating windmill in Crete.
Let’s got to the videotape. (Not for the squeamish or PETA activists.)
Renewable energy proponents want to portray an image of their technology being “free” and “green” and “non-impacting”. The realists among us point out that any technology of sufficient scope and power to meet our country’s energy demands has some downside, too.
It’s been my experience in the U.S. that the Fish and Wildlife Service levies heavy fines for migratory waterfowl accidentally killed because of industrial mishaps. For endangered and protected species (condors, pelicans, all raptors), the fine per bird can also run to many thousands of dollars.
So why did the vulture repeatedly circle among the whirling generator blades? Was he attracted to the vortices created by the windmill’s blades, or was he eying a previously-downed windmill victim while planning his brunch? We’ll never know.
Cross-posted at VladEnBlog.
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The same problem with those FROZEN windmills...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Sunday, April 4th at 8:22PM EST (link)this winter and really WE all know when it comes to liberals they think it & it must be done but they NEVER go behind the aha moment to calculate the end result of a given thought. They are quite STUPID that way.
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Um...Is is impolite to laugh at a vulture's misfortunes?
LaborUnionReport (Diary) Sunday, April 4th at 8:36PM EST (link)Speaking of Al Gore, of course…
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yoyo (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 7:04PM EST (link)Nemo me impune lacesset
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How many whales must die?
OregonGuy Sunday, April 4th at 8:39PM EST (link)How many porpoises?
“…Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) would deploy a state-of-the-art wave energy buoy – 140 feet long, 40 feet wide, weighing 200 tons – off the shoreline near Reedsport in autumn 2010.”
http://www.newportnewstimes.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=22466&page=72
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Lots...
Erick Brockway (Diary) Sunday, April 4th at 9:10PM EST (link)…and lots.
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But wait... solar is our savior!
Bill S (Diary) Sunday, April 4th at 9:01PM EST (link)Oh. Maybe not.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Solar?
Conservative Phantom Sunday, April 4th at 9:57PM EST (link)Can’t wait for the youtube vid of a flock of birds that gets vaporized in-flight when they cross in front of one of those solar furnace things…you know, where they have a few hundred mirrors all concentrating on one spot.
Flash! Poof! Ashes.
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tngal (Diary) Sunday, April 4th at 10:57PM EST (link)Consider, the vulture – whether the turkey vulture or the black vulture. They live on carrion. They clean up the waste. The garbage and refuse. In the country we rely on the vulture to tell us where one of the herd has “passed on”. So, if you see a vulture something is either dead or in the process thereof……
If vultures are congregating around your ‘wind wings ‘ could it be the death of liberalism…hhhhmmm.
you are right.
gigi36b Monday, April 5th at 10:35PM EST (link)I believe the vultures congregate around wind turbines as they are attracted by the previously killed birds on the ground.
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Vulture Pot Pie
wolfster38 (Diary) Sunday, April 4th at 11:06PM EST (link)How green…..An Eco Friendly dinner.
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Are you sure it wasn't an endangered Condor?
snowshooze (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 7:03PM EST (link)I have heard of this from my local wind power supplier who told me at times birds would fly through the invisible high speed blades on the small residential units, but they solved the problem by using a good tough plastic blade that could withstand a great many bird burgering impacts…
I guess they need to retrofit blade guards on the windmills, and make them fine enough to prevent our honey bees from getting whacked too…
Great video, Vladimir
Here's my favorite math
gigi36b Monday, April 5th at 10:32PM EST (link)problem solved by liberal smart power:
electricity usage+plugging in electric cars=energy savings.