Now, windmills off California coast. Already planned for Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard

Ask a commercial fisherman, they’ll say one of their biggest challenges is keeping machinery and equipment functioning in a saltwater environment. I have never heard an explanation of how offshore wind will handle the conditions (inference being, it won’t - just a take the money and run scheme).

That's going to kill a lot of birds.

But it's easier to hide all the dead birds in the ocean.

A mere fraction of th birds killed by reflective glass or house cats.


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According to the current literature somewhere between 140,000 and 328,000 birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines.

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In the United States alone, outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year.

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By combining these numbers, the Smithsonian reported that collisions likely kill between 365 million and 1 billion birds annually in the United States, with a median estimate of 599 million.

We believe that the true number is closer to a billion...