John Kerry Calls Out 'Disinformation Campaign' on Wind Turbines

[Caribbeans]

Source: Newsweek

Offshore wind farms are essential to reducing the effects of climate change, despite a recent rise in controversy regarding their impact on wildlife, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has told Newsweek.

"When you talk about wildlife, the creatures below sea and creatures above the sea, can a bird wind up becoming the victim of that blade? Yes, I think we know that that can happen. But on the other hand, birds are also highly receptive in flight, and their radar is significantly capable of shying away from both noise as well as visual," Kerry said, speaking ahead of the 2023 Our Ocean Conference to be held in Panama from March 2.

"Look at the average highway in any country in the world. Cars hit birds. I don't hear anybody complaining about that or trains or airplanes. It's a balance. And I think it is not a crisis in my judgment."

Offshore wind power is generated by turbines, usually constructed at sea to take advantage of high wind speeds. The Biden Administration has a goal of installing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind farms by 2030. This would be enough to power 10 million homes. Currently, the U.S. has two operational offshore wind farms off the coasts of Rhode Island and Virgina. But there are many more plans in the pipeline

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/john-kerry-disinformation-campaign-wind-turbines-1784346

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Unique study: birds avoid wind turbine blades

Vattenfall.com | Mattias Dahlström | 28 FEBRUARY 2023

Seabirds deliberately avoid wind turbine rotor blades offshore – that is the main finding of a new study that mapped the flightpaths of thousands of birds around wind turbines in the North Sea. Most importantly, during two years of monitoring using cameras and radar, not a single bird was recorded colliding with a rotor blade.
https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2023/unique-study-birds-avoid-wind-turbine-blades

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Remove the face of fascism video and Will Rec! 👍🍺😬

[honest.abe]

2. You ruined your post with the video.

That face makes me want to puke.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. The whole "windmills kill birds" thing is just mindless crap

Statistically, fossil fuel and nuclear plants kill far more birds per kilowatt generated.

Every time windmills come up in discussion, all I hear from the Fox-MAGA brigade is that they "kill birds", are "Ugly" and "Dangerous" (inevitable link to same old video of a windmill generator catching fire).

I try to respond with statistics and pictures (oil-soaked birds, strip mines, refinery fires), but as we know, brick walls are more receptive.

[Coventina]

4. Glass is far deadlier than wind turbines. Glass skyscrapers kill millions.

Trump Tower alone probably kills more birds than all the turbines of the world put together.

[Eko]

5. Dont you all know

It's a guvnmunt conspricy!!!!

[C Moon]

7. Whoops. I didn't know about that movement. Changed my comment.

[Kennah]

6. Raptor kills worry me

Cats kill millions of birds annually, but cats rarely drag home a dead eagle they killed.

I've read articles recently that scientists are looking at the dirt simple solution of painting one of the turbine blades black. Creates a visual disturbance that most birds can see and avoid.