One of the only downsides that anyone can state about the viability of wind power, is that they can be destructive to birds and bats. Shocking as it is that some environmental activists would oppose such a healthy energy production method, organizations such as the audobon society have worked surprisingly hard to oppose them.
Here is an interesting fact sheet comparing wind turbine deaths with other forms of human caused bird fatalities. http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm
Before anyone cries for the poor birdies that run into propellers on the cleanest power generators in the world, they better be out rallying for the removal of all glass from buildings. And getting off their cel-phones.. and living without electricity..that's your computers too. and not using any automated transportation. The bird fatality by turbine numbers are dwarfed by all other sources of deaths.
The answer is blowing in the wind.
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