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10/22/22 10:06 PM

#427604 RE: fuagf #427603

I had the chance to visit with some wind turbine people probably 10 plus years ago years ago and I asked them about the equipment's reliability and they were pretty evasive in their answers.

Obviously they knew they had a problem with the first generation. When we are birding in the southwest quarter of Mn we probably pass by 8-10 fields a day depending on which counties we are in. Very compatible with corn and bean fields. Today we have noticed a that they are placing the towers closer to each other.

A friend was helping with bird surveys in areas where fields were being considered. He tells me that it seems that if their reports show a lot of migration activity they build the towers elsewhere. Which is a good idea as the blades are getting longer and longer and the towers correspondingly taller, thus killing a lot of birds.