Offshore Wind Farms

[rb85]

I greatly oppose onshore wind farms, they kill so many eagles yet the greenies say the turbines are better than the other options when they kill the eagles that are 1- protected in Australia, and 2- 8000 eagles alone, not counting other sea birds, die to wind turbine every year.

Can you share the link to that info mate I find it disturbing.

To be fair it is 1-2 bird per wind turbine.

1-2 brids to many

Unfortunately all industries have varying severity of environmental impact.

[frozenpod]

I greatly oppose onshore wind farms, they kill so many eagles yet the greenies say the turbines are better than the other options when they kill the eagles that are 1- protected in Australia, and 2- 8000 eagles alone, not counting other sea birds, die to wind turbine every year.

Can you share the link to that info mate I find it disturbing.

To be fair it is 1-2 bird per wind turbine.

1-2 brids to many

How many killed per car, truck, plane per year?

[fisho999]

dunno, way to many though

[cobby]

The biggest issues are distances between each unit within the arrays and the subsequent exclusion zone per unit. If we're talking 100m spacing with 50m exclusion zones each then we're in for a very bad time, commercial shipping included....

[Mattblack]

I greatly oppose onshore wind farms, they kill so many eagles yet the greenies say the turbines are better than the other options when they kill the eagles that are 1- protected in Australia, and 2- 8000 eagles alone, not counting other sea birds, die to wind turbine every year.

Can you share the link to that info mate I find it disturbing.

To be fair it is 1-2 bird per wind turbine.

That's not bad....I'd be happy sacrificing double that (those birds need to pull their weight and take one for the planet)

[rb85]

The biggest issues are distances between each unit within the arrays and the subsequent exclusion zone per unit. If we're talking 100m spacing with 50m exclusion zones each then we're in for a very bad time, commercial shipping included....

Would imagine Shipping lanes will be off limits for Windfarms.
Commercial fishing vessels, tour boats & recreational who knows.

[re-tyred]

They are nowhere near any shipping lanes.