Replies to post #427604 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

what is it with birds that fly into structures? I have five ceiling fans running constantly in my house but there's one damn fly I've been trying to catch for a couple weeks now and it's not the first one that snuck in.

It doesn't seem to be bothered with the blades....

[fuagf]

Interesting. Guess reliability is a pretty common question mark with most new technology. Unless it's a technology with built-in obsolescence which i've been told happens. True or not, not sure.

I was going to ask what you did, but if it's counting dead birds, which sure makes sense, it would not be an easy job. If that's you, congratulations. It would be difficult i'd think.

[Zorax]

I'm sorry, no disrespect to you but I'm not going with your alarmist oil energy propaganda. I know more than a few birding organizations in the mid-west and their studies do not support the 'turbine killing fields'

Non big energy studies have reported the turbines themselves spin far too slowly to injure birds, any birds. The incidence of bird collisions with towers or blades isn't any higher than cities and building windows.

Have tall structures impacted migration routes or passages of birds?
Not in any appreciable number than comparable telephone or power systems have.