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Hiding the Wind Turbine Bird Slaughter: Manipulating numbers
August 27, 2013
by Jim Wiegand
The wind industry is hiding over 90% of the bird and bat mortality caused by their turbines. This statement is supported by the industry’s own data and reasonable adjustments for its manipulations.
The wind industry is … producing faulty, misleading and even fraudulent documents to hide the serious and growing mortality. This situation has continued for years but has been shielded by state and federal agencies and other supporters of wind power.
How Altamont Pass has recorded less bird mortality
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This image illustrates one of the ways Altamont Pass has recorded less mortality. The red circle shows the proportionally undersized search areas used on the largest turbines. The blue circle shows the minimum proper search area for a 2.3 MW wind turbine; that area is 7x larger than what is currently being searched and extends into the kill zones of 3 much smaller KW turbines.
Altamont Mortality numbers for 1998-2003 and 2005-2110 time frames
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Small bird calculations using data from Altamont 48 hour study
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Small bird calculations using 2005-2010 Altamont Carcass Data
"The spectre of global warming and the political panic surrounding it has triggered a goldrush for renewable energy sources without an open discussion of the merits and drawbacks of each. In The Wind Farm Scam Dr Etherington argues that in the case of wind power the latter far outweigh the former. Wind turbines cannot generate enough energy to reduce global CO2 levels to a meaningful degree; what’s more wind power is by nature intermittent and cannot generate a steady output, necessitating back-up coal and gas power plants that significantly negate the saving of greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to the inefficacy of wind power there are ecological drawbacks, including damage to habitats, wildlife and the far-from-insignificant aesthetic drawback of the assault upon natural beauty and the pristine landscape, which wind turbines entail. Dr Etherington argues that wind power has been, and is being, excessively financed at the cost of consumers who have not been consulted, nor informed that this effective subsidy is being paid from their bills to support an industry that cannot be cost efficient or, ultimately, favour the cause it purports to support."
Dr John Etherington, The Wind Farm Scam
Dr John Etherington, The Wind Farm Scam
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