On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:32:06 -0600, Eric F. Richards
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On 1 Oct 2005 10:02:38 -0700, "RHF"
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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.
Didn't hear it from Rush - read it in The Los Angeles Times - a noted
'liberal' news paper. From what I've read in other than the LA Times,
the information said same as yo do - that most of the birds figure it
out. However, that particular windfarm is still now under restricted
operation due to concern for migratory birds so in this case the
environmentalists did win.