[LMB] "Civilization isn't just electricity."

[Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan]

On 2/8/08, anmar mirza <anmar.mirza at gmail.com> wrote:
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> *Any* form of energy we use will have some type environmental cost!

Absolutely.  Wasn't saying otherwise.

> One of the environmental impact studies for wind farms involves not
> placing them in the path of migratory birds.

Certainly a good plan.  However, the scientist who was telling me
about this talked about current wind farms that are already killing
specific birds.  And the birds weren't migrating, they just lived on
the coast.  And kept getting killed by the blades.

> When you compare it to coal, oil, or even nuclear (waste aside, mining
> nuclear fuels and processing it is incredibly polluting), wind and solar
> are very low, lower than hydro even.  We humans can't avoid having
> some type of impact.

Absolutely.  I never said otherwise.  I was just commenting that I
hadn't realized that something like wind farming could have these
kinds of effects.  Most of the complaints I'd heard before that were
of the NIMBY variety -- ruining the skyline, etc.

> In almost five decades of studying this problem, there has been no
> conclusive data to date.

If you say so. I don't know anything about the field.  Just commenting
on the coincidence that I just heard about the PhD project yesterday.

-Tora