Thank you to Diana Resnik from Online Euronews for the Headline
I was fascinated to hear the results of a survey completed in Aberdeen Bay which measured actual behaviour in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines combining AI-powered (is this not virtual reality?) and detailed expert analysis to prove that not one bird was injured in a collision with one of the blades. Result eh?
Also the German Offshore Wind Energy Association(BWO ) has commissioned a study involving one and a half years of research and monitored with the help of radar and AI based cameras four million bird movements which showed that 99.8per cent of migratory birds reliably avoided the wind turbines. Clever birds!
It seems that there is a conflict between the Bird Watchers and the Climate Change Protestors, both support the idea of “wind farms” and both want to work together to protect Nature and the Environment
The Bird Watchers in Germany have suggested politely keeping the site of a wind turbine at least 6000 metres from the nest of a “lesser spotted eagle” as they say there is a danger to native bird species. This recommendation is included in the “Helgoland Paper”. Have you heard of it ? Neither have I?
However, the first survey referred to in the article comes from Vattenfall(One of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat) and Spoor( a High tech AI and Camera Visualisation method for analysing Bird Behaviour near Windfarm Blades).
The Vattenfall and Spoor survey, the name which sounds a bit like a weird Dickens Law Firm in “Bleak House” comes out , not surprisingly in favour of the Wind Farms and their rotating blades. It also has the gravitas for the cameras , but perhaps not the conclusions of the full report to be verified by the British Ornithological society.
This is by no means the end of the story , let’s face it common sense would say that birds are going to collide with things that are flying through the air that they aren’t expecting to be there. Just like whales will always get stranded and animals will fall sick.
It’s keeping people busy finding out what the real impacts are. Humans are the bees in this, the reward the nectar of low-cost , sustainable energy, hopefully the results will not be bleak.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏
thenotsomightyom 