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Old October 2nd 05, 06:32 AM
Eric F. Richards
 
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Default Slightly OT again; Wind Power

wrote:

On 1 Oct 2005 10:02:38 -0700, "RHF"
wrote:

EFR,
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IIRC - These are the same people that have the Wind Energy Farm
along the Hills near the Altamont Pass in California. ~ RHF
http://www.highton.com/pages/portfpa...passportf.html
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~abrown/P...1_h_thumb.html
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You would be referring to the wonderful implementation of
environmentally friendly power generation that the current crop of
environmentalists want closed down because birds hit the bladed and
die - correct? You just can't make some activists happy anymore


Congratulation -- you drank the Kool Aid. No one -- no
environmentalist -- believes that myth. There was some worry about
it, enough to prompt a study, that showed that birds have no problem
with the blades and steering clear of them. Birdstrikes occur, but
are relatively rare, down in the statistical noise.

But believe everything that Rush tells you, because he's soooo
intelligent and open minded.

--
Eric F. Richards

"I have in mind a bloodbath that is thoroughly bipartisan. Let the
Clintons be the first to go. American politics will not be healthy until
they are purged from the system. Issue exit visas to Trent Lott and Tom
DeLay, to Dick Armey, to the ancient and awful Strom Thurmond and the
odious Jesse Helms. Let the ostraca fall upon the bombastic charlatan
Jesse Jackson, upon Henry Hyde and Maxine Waters, upon Barbara Boxer
and Orrin Hatch." - Lance Morrow,
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...,88598,00.html