[heavyset_go]

> Yeah, apparently just paint one rotor blade differently to make it stand out and birds will stay clear [1]

The study you're citing was only studied 4 wind turbines, while the evidence does point towards this working, I wouldn't say that the existing evidence is conclusive. Also, the turbines with the darker blades still killed birds, just less bird than the turbines with standard blades.

[biotinker]

Wind turbines don't kill enough birds to be more than a drop in the dead-bird bucket. It's a talking point used by people who were looking for reasons to be against wind turbines, but housecats kill four orders of magnitudes- not 4x, 10,000x- more birds each year.

The percent of human-caused bird deaths due to wind turbines is smaller than the percent of Americans dying in airplane crashes each year, compared to all US deaths each year.

[titzer]

Well judging from your comment it's going to be hard to get your default attitude to change on this. What would change your mind? A popular mechanics article? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a247495...

Turbines are bad for birds. Period.

[heavyset_go]

I agree, but I disagree about the claims that were made by the poster whose post I was responding to.

[mschuster91]

The species of birds that get killed are different. Wind turbines kill bigger birds, cats kill small songbirds.

Both are a non-negligible factor for their respective species.

[adgjlsfhk1]

Windmills generate more than 1% of power. Thus if you scale up the wind turbines by 100x (to cover more than all power generated over the world), they still kill over 100x fewer birds than cats.

[ffggvv]

seems disingenuous to compare the raw numbers of deaths when windmills still aren’t very common but you want to make them far more common.

not saying i disagree with your point overall but not a fan of that stat

[bawolff]

So, paint is cheap. Its not like we're talking a multimillion dollar mitigation. Lets paint some turbines and see what happens.