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by kosievdmerwe 2869 days ago
Per tower or in total? I don’t understand how a spinning turbine is safer than a tower, so if you’re talking about it in total then how many extra bird lives will be lost when the number of wind turbines increase drastically?
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The theory goes that, as birds have excellent eyesight and use it to navigate, they're more likely to avoid a huge slowly rotating object than a very narrow pointy one.