Sounds plausible Replacement. Practicality is another story. I have seen some enormously large steel mill reversing roughing mill motors and their large spindle shafts and rolls come to a stop in a few seconds using dynamic or regenerative braking. I'm talking about over 100 tons of shaft, back-up and work-roll, and armature or rotor that is turning much faster than any wind turbine. However, applying that kind of stopping and starting torque to the blades and turbines every time a bird passes would eventually cause components to fail prematurely, or require additional expense and engineering to make them stronger. So I question whether the operators of these systems would incur the additional cost, or just cheat and disable the radar. I also note this is for large birds. Are the animal lovers going to accept the continued slaughter of the smaller species?
However, I do like Mike's idea of testing the system by demanding the total ban of bird killing wind turbines to see if it's all about gun control... even though we already know it is.
