"Tidal generators can suck in fish." "Wind can kill off birds (didn't it lead one species to extinction somewhere?) by sucking them in, and it can alter wind currents" "Coal generators release really harmful crap into the environment, oh, and CO2."
A tidal generator sucks up a fish, so what? Planting Tall Trees Can Alter Wind Currents... Who gives a damn? Those fish regularly pass through the damn multiple times per day as part of their search for food. There is inconclusive proof that current CO2 levels have any effect on climate. CO2 makes up less than 0.0383% of the total gas in the atmosphere and man kind only contributes to .001% of that annually. The number one "warming gas" is water vapor (0.25%). Oxygen (20.946%) and Nitrogen (78.084%) are the two most common gases in the Earths atmosphere.
Utility transmission and distribution lines, the backbone of our electrical power system, are responsible for 130 to 174 million bird deaths a year
Collisions with automobiles and trucks result in the deaths of between 60 and 80 million birds annually
Tall building and residential house windows get in the way of wind and kill 100 million to 1 billion birds annually. Lets not even mention how many tall trees have killed birds.
Lighted communication towers kill 40-50 million per year. One case cites that 10,000 birds were killed by a communication tower in just one night alone.
Housecats kill 217,000,000 birds a year.
Commercial wind turbines-- Get this: Just 6,400 birds per year! Hell, KFC fries that many birds in less than one half hour!
Jessie, just remember that man was given dominion over the land and the animals. It's our given right to do what we like with them, for food, experimentation, transportation, work, and entertainment. Put down the dope, apparently its affected your logic.
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I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Nov 27th 2007 1:07AM
@Jesse S
"Tidal generators can suck in fish."
"Wind can kill off birds (didn't it lead one species to extinction somewhere?) by sucking them in, and it can alter wind currents"
"Coal generators release really harmful crap into the environment, oh, and CO2."
A tidal generator sucks up a fish, so what? Planting Tall Trees Can Alter Wind Currents... Who gives a damn? Those fish regularly pass through the damn multiple times per day as part of their search for food. There is inconclusive proof that current CO2 levels have any effect on climate. CO2 makes up less than 0.0383% of the total gas in the atmosphere and man kind only contributes to .001% of that annually. The number one "warming gas" is water vapor (0.25%). Oxygen (20.946%) and Nitrogen (78.084%) are the two most common gases in the Earths atmosphere.
Utility transmission and distribution lines, the backbone of our electrical power system, are responsible for 130 to 174 million bird deaths a year
Collisions with automobiles and trucks result in the deaths of between 60 and 80 million birds annually
Tall building and residential house windows get in the way of wind and kill 100 million to 1 billion birds annually. Lets not even mention how many tall trees have killed birds.
Lighted communication towers kill 40-50 million per year. One case cites that 10,000 birds were killed by a communication tower in just one night alone.
Housecats kill 217,000,000 birds a year.
Commercial wind turbines-- Get this: Just 6,400 birds per year! Hell, KFC fries that many birds in less than one half hour!
Jessie, just remember that man was given dominion over the land and the animals. It's our given right to do what we like with them, for food, experimentation, transportation, work, and entertainment. Put down the dope, apparently its affected your logic.
http://www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/swbirds.html
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