Matt-Aburg
Ultra Member
The cold blew in here now.. It is -12 but going to -20 overnight. Extremely high winds.. Good week to stay inside...
These pictures were taken at Port Stanley
These pictures were taken at Port Stanley
Net 49 below zero
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Matt-Aburg
Ultra Member
I did not take them. They are from a photographer here in town.
"We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave..."
T'hell, you say! Obviously we need more bird & bat choppers, and more solar panels, too.
Ironman
Ultra Member
Yep. That's gonna save the world. And gets us more bone piles under the windmills. They can be ground up for organic fertilizer too. Win, Win.
We do a really good job being correct about machining and technical topics.
And I appreciate the "how to keep the propane flowing" bits. But I can't stand misinformation.
Y'all stay warm, I'm going to take a bit of a time out.
My part of the country is littered with wind mills and dead birds. I personally see them all the time. But my area is part of the Point Pelee migratory bird path.
I don't believe that chart Paul. I'd put windmills up there with cats and windows. Same as I didn't believe the study the government did on health effects of wind mills. They did a survey and I wore a monitor for two weeks. When they published the report they said zero adverse health effects. Total bull. I don't get headaches or insomnia when the mills don't run but I do when they do. I can feel those Fn things through the ground a mile away.
I'm always wary of statistics - especially government stats. Too easy to make them lie. Did they look at cat and glass kills in the vicinity of the mills or is that total cats and glass in the entire USA vs windmills. And which windmills? The one in the middle of nowhere? Given so few windmills per US square mile, it's easy to see how the numbers could get badly skewed.
Neither can I. How many house cats you see take down a bald or golden eagle? Or any other raptor, for that matter? Now, do cats kill birds? Yeppers. Largely song birds, of which there are untold billions. Those aren't the ones I'm concerned about. I'm worried about raptors, endangered birds and bats. If I go out & shoot a baldy, my butt is toast. Yet wind farms have carte blanche to kill as many as they like.
While the numbers in that chart may, in fact, be accurate, they are most certainly intentionally skewed to minimize the effects windmills have on particular populations. F'rinstance, what species are cats killing? If there are a trillion songbirds in the US & a million/year are killed by cats, that's a rounding error. What species are flying into windows? Likely a very similar sample to cat prey.
If there are ~300,000 baldies living in the US and 100 of them die every year from windmills, that's significant. Even worse would be the loss of a single California condor.
As much as I love math, I also love words and how we use them. I think only a Canadian from the Prairies would say “climbing to -28”.
Every time a cat goes outside a bird loses its wings.
Not like the bell fairy thing in Peter Pan.