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Thread #66696   Message #1112633
Posted By: Wolfgang
09-Feb-04 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Oil will run out
Subject: RE: BS: Oil will run out
The German ecological movement is quite split on wind power:

(1) The really economically competitive projects would be offshore in a very sensible area of the flat tidal ocean.
(2) Direct killings of birds is not seen as a urgent problem, but
(3) Many species of birds avoid breeding and feeding close to these rotors (imagine you get a big fright every other second from a big shadow)
(4) People living there complain about the low frequency noise and about the intermittent shadow (intermittent shadow can in principle trigger an epileptic fit). The complaint are about headache, sleeplessness etc. Those people of course could be ecochonders (you will guess what this new word means), but who can be sure?

Wolfgang