From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:14:46 -0700, Snidely    
   wrote:   
      
   >[I was tempted to tease out a bit of Beatles' lyric for the subject   
   >line, but between faulty memory and not being sure I could construct   
   >the right impression ....]   
   >   
   >This report from Norway, via Ars Technica, may mean Donald doesn't have   
   >to choose between birds and windpower:   
   >   
   >   
   >Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the   
   >number of birds that are killed each year by wind turbines. According   
   >to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of   
   >Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to   
   >black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths.   
   >   
   >   
   >Of course, we know DJ is really concerned about his friends in the coal   
   >industry, and not at all concerned about birds, but this is still a   
   >good sign.   
   >   
   >   
   >The base numbers: "Estimates from the US Fish and Wildlife Service   
   >calculated that approximately 300,000 birds were killed by wind   
   >turbines in 2015 (which is probably two orders of magnitude fewer than   
   >die as a result of colliding with electrical power lines each year)."   
   >   
   >/dps   
      
   Can we paint the cats black, too? They get billion of US birds   
   annually.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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