So I live at the base of the Altamont Pass, a major wind farm area. They are in the process of transitioning from small inefficient bird killing wind turbines to larger and far fewer turbines to reduce the bird kill while at the same time up the power generation levels.
these are the old turbines
Today they approved yanking out another 1100 of them and replacing them with 100 of the new bigger turbines then doing landscape and habitat rehabilitation
The new turbines will generate 100 megawatts of power. the old turbines generate much less power
and their small rapidly spinning blades chopped up thousands of birds each year
this shot was from the first phase a few years ago. the smaller turbines have been removed from that area
kind of cool stuff
these are the old turbines
Today they approved yanking out another 1100 of them and replacing them with 100 of the new bigger turbines then doing landscape and habitat rehabilitation
The new turbines will generate 100 megawatts of power. the old turbines generate much less power
and their small rapidly spinning blades chopped up thousands of birds each year
this shot was from the first phase a few years ago. the smaller turbines have been removed from that area
kind of cool stuff
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