Monday, 10 September 2012

Re: [Maine-birds] Radical new wind turbine design

To save replies I will confess I didn't see the numbers re. the power generated;  read the article in small format after having minor surgery this morning and still apparently semi-hazy.  Glad for everyone's sake I wasn't driving while texting it in  ( ;

Sean Smith 
 
 

Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Radical new wind turbine design

The astonishing part of that article was the statement that the stadium uses about 17 MILLION kilowatt hours per year. I mean, they don't have a game every night. Back on topic, it does look like it would be less dangerous for birds.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Sean Smith <therefromhere168@gmail.com> wrote:
Saw this today.  These new wind turbines are as ugly as....well, giant plastic corkscrews...but to my eye they appear more bird-friendly (it looks like the birds would be far more likely to notice them and not fly into them).  And apparently they generate a good amount of electricity:
 
 
Sean Smith

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