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Maybe we should fight back by demanding they shut down all the windmills the same "Greens" cite as alternative to oil/coal fired generators.They kill more raptors and scanvengers than die from eating lead shot.


I was hunting this weekend with a guy who works for the U.S. Forest Service. As we were driving through the wind farm in the Banning Pass (hideously ugly), he told me that some new turbines are being equipped with some sort of radar that senses the approach of big birds and stops the turbine before the bird hits it. I don't know how long it takes to stop those blades, but I was planning to do a bit of research on that topic. Anybody know the details?