mondeo
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You know how you put silouhettes of birds of prey on windows to prevent the preyed upon birds from flying into them? Maybe we should put silouhettes of hunters on the wind turbines.:dunce:
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Blue Mountain wind turbines vs. migrating raptors
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Birds can't read..anyway I know I'll be making some hawk stew in the paring lot..:idea:
I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING!
SMELLS LIKE..............VICTORY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w
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Kite power: what will they think of next?
First In: Field Notes
Go Green: Higher Power
A kitesurfing genius aims to solve the energy crisis.
When inventor Saul Griffith arrived at MIT in 1999, he encountered a problem no other Ph.D. student faced. Where to kitesurf? “Without other options, I became the first person to kitesurf on the Charles River,” says Griffith, 35. “And, yes, it was just as terrible as you’d imagine.” Now he’s tackling a slightly bigger issue: the global energy crisis. The folks at Google have kicked in $15 million to his clean-energy company, Makani Power, and the MacArthur Foundation tapped him in 2007 for a prestigious $500,000 “genius” fellowship. His hobby, it seems, has paid off. Griffith and his colleagues at Makani are now developing huge, wing-shaped kites to harness the energy of high-altitude air—which is much stronger and more consistent than the ground-flow breezes that traditional windmill-based turbines rely on. The concept is simple: The yo-yo effect of the kite being pulled in and out by the wind churns a turbine and creates energy. But for every advance, Griffith says, he’s realized there’s a drawback. “Now whenever the wind blows, I have to go test our technology—and not go kiting.”
THE BRUSH (Altitude: 60'): American Charles F. Brush was the first to design an automatic wind turbine, in 1887. The giant cedar contraption powered his 17-room mansion for 20 years.
THE WINDMILL (Altitude: 262'):Indiana’s Fowler Ridge I, one of the largest wind farms in the U.S., operates 222 turbines, each of which produces enough energy to power some 365 households.
THE KITE (Altitude: 4,100'): In 2007 Dutch scientists debuted a kite capable of powering five homes. But soon they plan to test this “Laddermill,” which they say could power 50 houses.
THE MAKANI (Altitude: 31,680'):Makani has kept its design under wraps, but Griffith says the kites could fly six miles high and produce enough energy for 100,000 homes.—Andrea Minarcek
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/first-in-text
First In: Field Notes
Go Green: Higher Power
A kitesurfing genius aims to solve the energy crisis.
When inventor Saul Griffith arrived at MIT in 1999, he encountered a problem no other Ph.D. student faced. Where to kitesurf? “Without other options, I became the first person to kitesurf on the Charles River,” says Griffith, 35. “And, yes, it was just as terrible as you’d imagine.” Now he’s tackling a slightly bigger issue: the global energy crisis. The folks at Google have kicked in $15 million to his clean-energy company, Makani Power, and the MacArthur Foundation tapped him in 2007 for a prestigious $500,000 “genius” fellowship. His hobby, it seems, has paid off. Griffith and his colleagues at Makani are now developing huge, wing-shaped kites to harness the energy of high-altitude air—which is much stronger and more consistent than the ground-flow breezes that traditional windmill-based turbines rely on. The concept is simple: The yo-yo effect of the kite being pulled in and out by the wind churns a turbine and creates energy. But for every advance, Griffith says, he’s realized there’s a drawback. “Now whenever the wind blows, I have to go test our technology—and not go kiting.”
THE BRUSH (Altitude: 60'): American Charles F. Brush was the first to design an automatic wind turbine, in 1887. The giant cedar contraption powered his 17-room mansion for 20 years.
THE WINDMILL (Altitude: 262'):Indiana’s Fowler Ridge I, one of the largest wind farms in the U.S., operates 222 turbines, each of which produces enough energy to power some 365 households.
THE KITE (Altitude: 4,100'): In 2007 Dutch scientists debuted a kite capable of powering five homes. But soon they plan to test this “Laddermill,” which they say could power 50 houses.
THE MAKANI (Altitude: 31,680'):Makani has kept its design under wraps, but Griffith says the kites could fly six miles high and produce enough energy for 100,000 homes.—Andrea Minarcek
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/first-in-text
bosrocker51
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from what little Internet research I have done many, many more birds die from electrocution on power lines than from flying into wind turbine blades.
there are some exceptins - the Altamont Pass in California has taken some raptors, but that's supposedly more of a local ecology/siting issue than strictly a wind turbine issue.
QUOTED: "While bird collisions do occur (with commercial wind turbines) the impacts on global populations appear to be relatively minor, especially in comparison with other human-related causes of mortality such as communications towers, collisions with buildings, and vehicles collisions. This is especially true for small scale facilities like the MG&E and WPS wind farms in Kewaunee County."
FROM: http://www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/swbirds.html
it always helps to cite your source, yes? ciao!
there are some exceptins - the Altamont Pass in California has taken some raptors, but that's supposedly more of a local ecology/siting issue than strictly a wind turbine issue.
QUOTED: "While bird collisions do occur (with commercial wind turbines) the impacts on global populations appear to be relatively minor, especially in comparison with other human-related causes of mortality such as communications towers, collisions with buildings, and vehicles collisions. This is especially true for small scale facilities like the MG&E and WPS wind farms in Kewaunee County."
FROM: http://www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/swbirds.html
it always helps to cite your source, yes? ciao!
