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jonathansizz on March 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites

FYI: bird deaths via wind turbines are trivial.

Collisions with wind turbines account for about one-tenth of one percent of all "unnatural" bird deaths in the United States each year.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science...

lotsofmangos on March 18, 2015 [–]

I was thinking about starting the anti-windows party to campaign for banning glass in architecture, just to see how dedicated people are to the premise of reducing bird deaths caused by human structures.

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