As if anyone is dumb enough to have the wool pulled over their eyes in the biggest scam of all time that Carbon dioxide causes 'global warming' -oops, sorry - 'Climate change'. Turbines are nothing more than an experiment. Not much good when the wind's not blowing...
@combatwombat71 There is still much to be gained from ridding our selves of our dependance on foreign oil and burning fossil fuel undoubtably does create pollution that is not carbon dioxide.
So, rather than looking at this as a problem, we look at it as an opportunity. Yes, it is sad that the birds die, but it is a necessary sacrifice if we want to survive the perils of climate change.
With that, given that the birds are going to die, we might as well make the most use out of them as possible. After all, this could be used to build an entire mini-industry.
@Scitech101 YOU STUPID SHIT! Prove that there is a problem with "climate change"!! It has been busted as a hoax to screw with your freedom and our energy. The temp has not changed in 15 YEARS! You need to do some personal research and stop being a fucking lemming believing everything you hear from LIBERALS making Billions off of the fraud and Commies like Van Jones looking to bring down America with regulating away your Freedoms.. Pay Attention for once in your life.
As we can see, there is a "problem" with endangered birds getting gooshed by windmills. However, the windmills are a key part of our global warming strategy.
So, my proposal? get our environmental and economic priorities straight. Humanity's survival and prosperity > Bird wellbeing.
On that note, install baskets underneath the turbines on the ground. at the end of each day, the dead and injured birds that fall into the baskets are used/sold as pets, meat, feathers, etc.
Recent studies from Altamont Pass would have us believing that the new larger wind turbines are much safer than the early turbines used at Altamont pass. Much has been written about repowering Altamont Pass with the new safer turbines. The studies are all flawed because the search areas looking for blade strike victims are statistically inconsistent with the turbine sizes. The search areas were proportionally much smaller when searching around the new 20 times larger turbines.
These things are built away from areas that Endangered birds live in, and out of the way of major bird migration routes, it seriously lowers the risk they will come close.
But what would you, or anybody rather? We continue using coals/petrol to fuel Powerplants causing pollution/certainly not helping global warming? Wind Farms are great if you think about the alternative.
That was very sad. Did you help this animal or did you just film it.?..Wow. I mean...the thing was in serious pain....How long did you sit there w/ the camera running while this thing is struggling for its life? Did it live?
The eagle-conservation plan now being proposed by the USFWS would give nesting eagles a ten mile buffer from wind turbine sites. The plan missed two key points (1)it should pertain just to the deadly propeller style wind turbine. This would give the wind industry incentive to move away from the industry's 220 mph tip speed killers. It would also spare many other bird species from inevitable slaughter and (2) It needs to be a felony to hide carcasses of protected species killed at wind farms.
@WiegandsWindow Yea it should....that was so sad...I want to cry or write somebody...I cant believe that...do you think it lived ? Im very angry someone would film it while it struggles for life.
@BiGGraff100..... This same scene plays out thousands of time a day at wind farms across the world. The cover-up has be ongoing for over 25 years. About the only thing one can do is get educated and when enough people stand up against this industry they can be forced to implement new turbine designs into their wind farms. Until then the greedy bastards will lie, pacify the public with bogus studies or say they're working on the problem, and continue to make their fortunes from these killers.
@BiGGraff100 Im sure this particular bird was killed, Im very concerned because I live about 5 miles from 20 or 30 of these huge windmills, look them up, I believe theyre referred to the Fenner Windmills..anyhow I really had no clue it was such a problem...This is a serious eye opener. Im going to have look into that
The success of the condor breeding programs have resulted in few if any free flying condors. This is because their habitats have been invaded by thousands of lethal wind turbines with their blade tips spinning at over 200 mph. To keep the condors from wandering into these death traps, all three condor populations are fed at established feeding stations where carcasses are dumped. Instead of wandering over 1000 of square miles looking for food, the condors now stay near their feeding stations.
Despite industry propaganda, cats, windows, cars etc. kill almost no rare and endangered species such as Condors, Whooping Cranes, Red Kites,Tasmanian Wedge Tailed Eagles, and Egyptian Vultures. I could go on and on with this death list. The fact is, once these turbines are put into their foraging and nesting habitats they become the primary killers of these species. No bird or bat is safe from these turbines.The public rarely hears about it because of wind farm security & contract gag orders
I know as well as anyone the integrity of the wind industry. I have read their rigged Environmental Impact Reports. I have yet to see an honest one. Remember the primary goal for these corporations it to get their hands on the taxpayers money. If they would lie about the impacts to Condors, Whopping Cranes and Eagles, they would lie about anything including costs to the taxpayer and energy projections. In the end the taxpayers and wildlife are the big losers.
How would you like to be dodging these things while you were shopping or looking for food? Putting these killers in the critical habitats of rare and endangered species is similar to putting a school crosswalk on a NASCAR racetrack. Newer propeller wind turbines have blade tips speeds over about 220 mph. The propeller wind turbine in this video is spinning at about 1/2 speed. This video clearly illustrates why all birds and bats do not have a chance near the spinning blades of these turbines.
Wind energy has great promise but 30 years ago the industry went down the wrong path with the technology and influence from aviation industry. Today we have these archaic spinning monsters. This is a quote from The Illustrated History of Wind Energy by Darrel M Dodge where he describes, A Blown Opportunity. "In the seven years between 1974 and 1981, the U.S. Federal Wind Energy Program was an extraordinarily efficient and successful government research and development activity... cont'd below
While the tax credits seemed to some to be an evolutionary development, they actually amounted to a complete redirection of U.S. energies. Planning for this re-direction was left to administration officials who thought that wind turbines were a mature technology that needed no further development. And who believed the over-optimistic claims of investment-hungry wind businesses that cost-effective and reliable designs were already available."
PRESS RELEASE: Save the Eagles International (STEI) wishes to warn the international community about the threat that windfarms and their power lines represent for biodiversity. Unlike cars, buildings, and domestic cats, wind turbine blades and high tension lines often kill protected or endangered birds like eagles, cranes, storks, etc. Cumulatively and over the long term, 3.5 million wind turbines to be installed worldwide will cause the extinction of many bird species, some of them emblematic.
In the big picture these eyesore killers of rare and endangered birds, will change nothing in the way society uses energy. They are not even close to being a green answer. The world's carbon production will not change because of these turbines, oil drilling will not change, and the oil spills will continue. What they do however is provide a false hope to the ignorant, fill corporate bank accounts with rigged profits and contribute to more worldwide habitat destruction from a corporate run world
The latest wind turbines are so huge that 134 of them have the same rotor sweep area as 4000 of the early turbines installed at the infamous Altamont Pass. Rotor sweep means the deadly KILL ZONE for birds and bats. The original turbines installed at Altamont pass had maximum tip speeds of 110-125 mph at 80 rotations per minute. At 500 ft the so called "safer" turbines have tip speeds of 234 mph at 20 rotations per minute. The turbine in the Video is rotating at only 12 rotations per minute.
How would you like to be dodging these things while you were shopping or looking for food? Putting these killers in the critical habitats of rare and endangered species is similar to putting a school crosswalk on a NASCAR racetrack. Newer propeller wind turbines have blade tips speeds over about 220 mph. The propeller wind turbine in this video is spinning at about 1/2 speed. This video clearly illustrates why all birds and bats do not have a chance near the spinning blades of these turbines.
@WiegandsWindow I think I speak for the most of the YouTube community when I say fuck off with that shit, because ultimately, no-one cares. We were put on this earth to protect ourselves, and survive, if the birds are fucking stupid enough to fly around the things, that is their own fault.
In the big picture these eyesore killers of rare and endangered birds, will change nothing in the way society uses energy. They are not even close to being a green answer. The world's carbon production will not change because of these turbines, oil drilling will not change, and the oil spills will continue. What they do however is provide a false hope to the ignorant, fill corporate bank accounts with rigged profits and contribute to more worldwide habitat destruction from a corporate run world.
This is just a small example of what the econazis have given us with their bought and payed for politicians and media campaigns. There is a genocide against the creatures of the sky everyday and you can't wash this bird and send it on its way. I would call PETA but those wackjobs think pets have a soul.
There are trade offs to all of our energy options. How many birds die in an oil spill? How many birds and fish will die if the ocean acidity passes a critical point due to increased CO2?
Lethal footage of protected birds being smashed by wind turbine blades could actually be taken thousands of times every day across the world. All anyone would have to do is set 24 hour surveillance cameras on the turbines. The wind industry is very aware of this and with their army of corrupt biologists and politicians, they have conspired in a decades long cover up concerning wind turbine mortality. The truth is, wind turbines kill every species of bird that is forced to share the same habitat.
Proposed wind farm imperils two falcon nest sites in New Hampshire IBERDROLA/Audubon involved in bogus studies. Fraudulent Environmental Impact studies are paving the way for the $120 million Groton Wind Project to move forward despite very real danger to threatened species, including the Peregrine Falcon. Mortality would come from falcons colliding with the turbine blades as well as the environmental degradation caused by the construction. Deadline to approve/deny the project is April 26, 2011
Folks that truly want to be enlightened on the insidious nature of the wind industry should read about what has been done to the California Condor. It is discussed in the recent editorial concerning the Tule Wind Project published in the East County Magazine. No bird species, no matter how precious, is safe from this greed driven industry.
@MLPSTORM On one hand, I want to say "really, are we going this route"? But, on the other hand, there were sounds RIGHT as it was being hit, and there's not way they could've heard that from that distance, and people just happened to get video on the one turbine that had a vulture flying around it. Why else would they be recording? Did they know this vulture was going to kick the bucket?
While this is a sad incident, to sit here and rant that wind turbines are evil and kill so many birds, why don't we also look at other factors? Cats kill hundreds of millions of birds each year, and birds just flying into windows kill even more. Nobody says "let's get rid of cats" or "Stop using windows!". So, if the birds dying are the real issue, fight to take down cats and windows, not wind turbines which kill less than a million birds a year (if anywhere near that).
I know from personal experience that the wind/Oil industry is represented by notorious lairs that routinely rig data and studies. I am an expert on birds of prey and have seen many rigged wind industry Environmental impact reports and studies. In fact I have never seen an honest one. Wind farms produce energy but they also create killing fields for birds and bats.
When is the media going to put an honest spotlight on this fraudulent industry?
Besides slaughtering birds and bats, Wind farms have a profound effect on real estate values. Donald Trump, who know a bit about real estate, also knows this. That is why he is fighting plans for an offshore wind farm that will be overlooking his Scots golf development. Yet there are many fraudulent wind industry studies that have been produced showing there is no loss of value to real estate in the communities where these turbines have been installed.
It is hard to believe that there are such Dumb Folks in this world. What kind of idiot would think video was rigged. What is seen here happens to thousands of birds, every single day across the world.
@microelsa I was not there, and didn't claim to be and what would you expect him to do? tape it back together? if anything he should of put it out of its misery, but you can be charged for killing an animal so therefore the thing to do in this situation is.........nothing.
A perfect case in point about how deadly the propeller style wind turbine is to rare and endangered species can be illustrated with the association of the Golden Eagle and the 10 square mile area of the Altamont Pass Wind Farm. Here it is easily the number one killer of this species in this habitat.
The Altamont wind farm sits on prime hunting grounds for the Golden Eagle. Yet at this 10 square mile area 50-75 Golden eagles are killed each year. If the turbines were not there, less than one Golden Eagle a year would die each year at this location by all other types of mortality combined. There is no question that the wind turbines are the NUMBER ONE KILLER in this habitat. Nothing else even comes close. The windows/ mortality propaganda is just part of the wind industry fraud.
Well, there are other accidents with wind-turbines as well. So far this year there has been 71 accidents involving wind-turbines. There has been 3 fatalities and 6 injuries. This data is little old though, there might be more fatalities and injuries by now.
And around 1/3 of the fatalities were public, meaning that the deceased were transport workers, civilians etc.
Hey people, we can not mitigate EVERYTHING in life... why don't we re engineer cars so that we don't hit dogs and cats and other people. Let's re engineer our hospitals so NO ONE dies in them..
Dr. Daniel Klem of Muhlenberg College has done studies over a period of 20 years, looking at bird collisions with windows. His conclusion: glass kills more birds than any other human related factor.
This is a very conservative quote from Dr. Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy......... In the United states "At the current estimated mortality rate of 3-11 birds per mw, the wind industry will be killing 900,000 to 1.8 million birds per year by the year 2030 . Keep in mind that most of the birds killed are protected species. In CA at just the Altamont Pass wind farm, over 2000 golden Eagles have been killed by the propeller style wind turbine.
A peer reviewed study that was published in Spain from SEO/BirdLife stated that as many as a 64 birds were killed by a single turbine each year. The Wolf Island study found a death rate 15 dead birds and 24 dead bats per turbine/year. It is well known that researchers never find all the dead bodies because of scavengers. In the US there are over 30,000 wind turbines and there are over 150,000 installed turbines worldwide. It is a fact that MILLIONS of birds and bats are killed annually.
Very sad video. Happens all too often, I'm sure. There's got to be a better design. The problem is, companies are probably not inclined to scrap these machines for new ones even if so. Those turbines are HUGE.
I'm not sure if that's a Vulture, it looks more like a rare California Condor, look it up at the Audubon website and see for yourself, there's not even a 1000 in the wild
For anyone that does not believe Washington DC is corrupt , just look at today's news about the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. They were exposed for trying to influence an independent and scientific report in BP's favor. This garbage is routine in Washington
This is a very conservative quote from Dr. Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy......... In the United states "At the current estimated mortality rate of 3-11 birds per mw, the wind industry will be killing 900,000 to 1.8 million birds per year by the year 2030 . Keep in mind that most of the birds killed are protected species. In CA at just the Altamont Pass wind farm, over 2000 golden Eagles have been killed by the propeller style wind turbine.
The study I quoted isnt one single source. It is complied from numerous studies and multiple avian experts who have devoted their lives to birds. They took into account all factors. It is hands down the most complete study to date. Saying things like the USFWS is corrupt isnt making you any more believeable. In fact if it wasnt for the USFWS.. half of the birds you are trying to defend wouldnt even exist today.
@kingofquartz Sadly the USFWS along with many other Washington DC Agencies are Corrupt. This is where laws and policy are made. I have been in contact with Govt. personnel at the lower levels of both wildlife and forest agencies. They are not happy with Washington and the good work of many is going to waste. If they speak out...... they are railroaded with mafia like tactics. The USFWS, the EPA the BLM and the USDA are not what they used to be
Look, your intentions are great. But when you start ranting about conspiracy jargon and saying the USFWS is corrupt, ect, then no one but nut balls will take you seriously.
The USFWS is the reason we still have condors.. so saying they dont care if they are all slaughtered just makes you sound a bit fruity. You cant change anything that way, you have to control your emotions and maybe try to work with the USFWS. Trust me.. work I have done with USFS & AGFC has done wonders.
This is for sure not fake.. Poor bird :(
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TheServiceWeb 2 weeks ago
ok so we put a bird on the barbecue this night???
techgamesMiquel 2 weeks ago
Fake how are you videoing and knowing it will crash
muhad40 1 month ago
Fake. 0:09
buzter123 1 month ago
@buzter123 yeah i see it too !
TheSavageShredder 1 week ago
poor thing cant realize this shit speed can reach over 150mph
ImGodUFUCK 1 month ago
that thing got fuckin owned haha
cowboys9510 1 month ago
@cowboys9510 how about you getting "owned" by a thick steel tube up your face? would you get equally entertained??
frizstyler 4 days ago
0:16 FUUUU- D':
franny96MJ 1 month ago
Fake
TheWasatch 1 month ago
@TheWasatch wow
dookiekong007 1 month ago
@dookiekong007 Wow... yes, I said 'fake'. It was a joke mate. And I am sorry your pet vulture got hurt
TheWasatch 1 month ago
жалко птичку, летала летала и бац
Dimon39RUS 2 months ago
awww poor thing. now more vultures will fly close to that thing seeing a meal down below and get hit. :(
ysbernier 2 months ago
i hope you went down and tried to help the poor thing..
GOBLINKINGISM 2 months ago
poor bird :/
MaxLucasC 2 months ago
Pobreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
F7E7R7N7A7N7D7O 2 months ago
dumb bird
counterclockwise123 2 months ago
Cars kill birds and people too - lets get rid of cars....!
ChuffChuffWoo 2 months ago
the sound of that turbine wing hitting the bird is oddly satisfying
jhofay 3 months ago
You and some friends should have circled around it, flapping your arms, like the way vultures do in the desert.
John27346 3 months ago
lol soon as the ground impact sound i lost it
jeffyboy333 4 months ago
i was laughing histerically then i felt bad
theoriginalmodz 4 months ago
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Animals Really are stupid
fr33kSh0w2012 5 months ago
Poor bird.
abermin 5 months ago
"i'm fight i can still o.k." lol i'm a terrible person for laughing at this
moe93098 5 months ago
bahahahaha
MrCrazyhorsepower 5 months ago
Tuocan Sam just ate it!!!!
rharris32388 5 months ago
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
SlayerProRR 5 months ago
As if anyone is dumb enough to have the wool pulled over their eyes in the biggest scam of all time that Carbon dioxide causes 'global warming' -oops, sorry - 'Climate change'. Turbines are nothing more than an experiment. Not much good when the wind's not blowing...
combatwombat71 6 months ago
@combatwombat71 There is still much to be gained from ridding our selves of our dependance on foreign oil and burning fossil fuel undoubtably does create pollution that is not carbon dioxide.
zacthebold 5 months ago
LOL that was hilarious
TheNateshannon 6 months ago
So, rather than looking at this as a problem, we look at it as an opportunity. Yes, it is sad that the birds die, but it is a necessary sacrifice if we want to survive the perils of climate change.
With that, given that the birds are going to die, we might as well make the most use out of them as possible. After all, this could be used to build an entire mini-industry.
This is not a joke.
Scitech101 6 months ago
@Scitech101 YOU STUPID SHIT! Prove that there is a problem with "climate change"!! It has been busted as a hoax to screw with your freedom and our energy. The temp has not changed in 15 YEARS! You need to do some personal research and stop being a fucking lemming believing everything you hear from LIBERALS making Billions off of the fraud and Commies like Van Jones looking to bring down America with regulating away your Freedoms.. Pay Attention for once in your life.
moski3 6 months ago
@moski3
Are the ice caps enough proof?
What about the spread of termites to previously cooler areas?
Scitech101 6 months ago
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Funny. Summers have been getting hotter and hotter by every year here in Finland and winters colder and colder.
Yeaaah, climate change sure is a hoax and the temperature hasn't changed at all.
LoL, dumbass.
FrozenBlaze 3 months ago
As we can see, there is a "problem" with endangered birds getting gooshed by windmills. However, the windmills are a key part of our global warming strategy.
So, my proposal? get our environmental and economic priorities straight. Humanity's survival and prosperity > Bird wellbeing.
On that note, install baskets underneath the turbines on the ground. at the end of each day, the dead and injured birds that fall into the baskets are used/sold as pets, meat, feathers, etc.
Scitech101 6 months ago
This is an obvious fake! as the camera shakes you can see how the vulture doesn't move with the shaking as the turbine does. AMATEUR!!
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joaowendel 6 months ago
@logan4whatever humm, is not fake... just zooming out... look at 0:10
joaowendel 6 months ago
OMG i just realized thats a HUGE bird. Soup anyone?
OMG Mill helps feed ur kids too!!!
ismaelgasparutube 6 months ago
That was hilarious
ismaelgasparutube 6 months ago
Recent studies from Altamont Pass would have us believing that the new larger wind turbines are much safer than the early turbines used at Altamont pass. Much has been written about repowering Altamont Pass with the new safer turbines. The studies are all flawed because the search areas looking for blade strike victims are statistically inconsistent with the turbine sizes. The search areas were proportionally much smaller when searching around the new 20 times larger turbines.
WiegandsWindow 6 months ago
Woah, WiegandsWindow, your some serious troll lol
These things are built away from areas that Endangered birds live in, and out of the way of major bird migration routes, it seriously lowers the risk they will come close.
But what would you, or anybody rather? We continue using coals/petrol to fuel Powerplants causing pollution/certainly not helping global warming? Wind Farms are great if you think about the alternative.
UroborosTheSnake 6 months ago
Poor bird...
XDarkAfterLifeX 7 months ago
That was very sad. Did you help this animal or did you just film it.?..Wow. I mean...the thing was in serious pain....How long did you sit there w/ the camera running while this thing is struggling for its life? Did it live?
BiGGraff100 7 months ago
poor vulture
ragingbull2001 7 months ago
The eagle-conservation plan now being proposed by the USFWS would give nesting eagles a ten mile buffer from wind turbine sites. The plan missed two key points (1)it should pertain just to the deadly propeller style wind turbine. This would give the wind industry incentive to move away from the industry's 220 mph tip speed killers. It would also spare many other bird species from inevitable slaughter and (2) It needs to be a felony to hide carcasses of protected species killed at wind farms.
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
@WiegandsWindow Yea it should....that was so sad...I want to cry or write somebody...I cant believe that...do you think it lived ? Im very angry someone would film it while it struggles for life.
BiGGraff100 7 months ago
@BiGGraff100..... This same scene plays out thousands of time a day at wind farms across the world. The cover-up has be ongoing for over 25 years. About the only thing one can do is get educated and when enough people stand up against this industry they can be forced to implement new turbine designs into their wind farms. Until then the greedy bastards will lie, pacify the public with bogus studies or say they're working on the problem, and continue to make their fortunes from these killers.
WiegandsWindow 7 months ago
@BiGGraff100 Im sure this particular bird was killed, Im very concerned because I live about 5 miles from 20 or 30 of these huge windmills, look them up, I believe theyre referred to the Fenner Windmills..anyhow I really had no clue it was such a problem...This is a serious eye opener. Im going to have look into that
BiGGraff100 7 months ago
The success of the condor breeding programs have resulted in few if any free flying condors. This is because their habitats have been invaded by thousands of lethal wind turbines with their blade tips spinning at over 200 mph. To keep the condors from wandering into these death traps, all three condor populations are fed at established feeding stations where carcasses are dumped. Instead of wandering over 1000 of square miles looking for food, the condors now stay near their feeding stations.
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
Despite industry propaganda, cats, windows, cars etc. kill almost no rare and endangered species such as Condors, Whooping Cranes, Red Kites,Tasmanian Wedge Tailed Eagles, and Egyptian Vultures. I could go on and on with this death list. The fact is, once these turbines are put into their foraging and nesting habitats they become the primary killers of these species. No bird or bat is safe from these turbines.The public rarely hears about it because of wind farm security & contract gag orders
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
I know as well as anyone the integrity of the wind industry. I have read their rigged Environmental Impact Reports. I have yet to see an honest one. Remember the primary goal for these corporations it to get their hands on the taxpayers money. If they would lie about the impacts to Condors, Whopping Cranes and Eagles, they would lie about anything including costs to the taxpayer and energy projections. In the end the taxpayers and wildlife are the big losers.
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
How would you like to be dodging these things while you were shopping or looking for food? Putting these killers in the critical habitats of rare and endangered species is similar to putting a school crosswalk on a NASCAR racetrack. Newer propeller wind turbines have blade tips speeds over about 220 mph. The propeller wind turbine in this video is spinning at about 1/2 speed. This video clearly illustrates why all birds and bats do not have a chance near the spinning blades of these turbines.
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
Wind energy has great promise but 30 years ago the industry went down the wrong path with the technology and influence from aviation industry. Today we have these archaic spinning monsters. This is a quote from The Illustrated History of Wind Energy by Darrel M Dodge where he describes, A Blown Opportunity. "In the seven years between 1974 and 1981, the U.S. Federal Wind Energy Program was an extraordinarily efficient and successful government research and development activity... cont'd below
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
While the tax credits seemed to some to be an evolutionary development, they actually amounted to a complete redirection of U.S. energies. Planning for this re-direction was left to administration officials who thought that wind turbines were a mature technology that needed no further development. And who believed the over-optimistic claims of investment-hungry wind businesses that cost-effective and reliable designs were already available."
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
PRESS RELEASE: Save the Eagles International (STEI) wishes to warn the international community about the threat that windfarms and their power lines represent for biodiversity. Unlike cars, buildings, and domestic cats, wind turbine blades and high tension lines often kill protected or endangered birds like eagles, cranes, storks, etc. Cumulatively and over the long term, 3.5 million wind turbines to be installed worldwide will cause the extinction of many bird species, some of them emblematic.
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In the big picture these eyesore killers of rare and endangered birds, will change nothing in the way society uses energy. They are not even close to being a green answer. The world's carbon production will not change because of these turbines, oil drilling will not change, and the oil spills will continue. What they do however is provide a false hope to the ignorant, fill corporate bank accounts with rigged profits and contribute to more worldwide habitat destruction from a corporate run world
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
The latest wind turbines are so huge that 134 of them have the same rotor sweep area as 4000 of the early turbines installed at the infamous Altamont Pass. Rotor sweep means the deadly KILL ZONE for birds and bats. The original turbines installed at Altamont pass had maximum tip speeds of 110-125 mph at 80 rotations per minute. At 500 ft the so called "safer" turbines have tip speeds of 234 mph at 20 rotations per minute. The turbine in the Video is rotating at only 12 rotations per minute.
WiegandsWindow 8 months ago
ungly vulture dies cause hes stupid
10411069 8 months ago
Human vs Nature.
pphaY 8 months ago
is the windmill ok?
funker6516 8 months ago
> Fly circles around a winturbine.
> Play chicken with the rotors.
> "Nothing could possibley go wrong!"
Oremir 8 months ago
Thats sad.
CPWindsorsub 8 months ago
RIP
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How many dicks do you eat a day?
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How would you like to be dodging these things while you were shopping or looking for food? Putting these killers in the critical habitats of rare and endangered species is similar to putting a school crosswalk on a NASCAR racetrack. Newer propeller wind turbines have blade tips speeds over about 220 mph. The propeller wind turbine in this video is spinning at about 1/2 speed. This video clearly illustrates why all birds and bats do not have a chance near the spinning blades of these turbines.
WiegandsWindow 9 months ago
@WiegandsWindow if the bird was smart it would've flew somewhere else.
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i like the part where the vulture was dying.
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@WiegandsWindow So tell us how you really feel.
JustMyHonestOpinion 9 months ago
@WiegandsWindow Agreed AND divert mpney aeay from the ony real long term energy solution - nuclear fusion!
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WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
@WiegandsWindow I think I speak for the most of the YouTube community when I say fuck off with that shit, because ultimately, no-one cares. We were put on this earth to protect ourselves, and survive, if the birds are fucking stupid enough to fly around the things, that is their own fault.
llEpidemicll 9 months ago
;( Poor thing...
GordonChiefSack 10 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
jeeeez. chill out.
cgad16 10 months ago
jeeeez. chill out.
cgad16 10 months ago
In the big picture these eyesore killers of rare and endangered birds, will change nothing in the way society uses energy. They are not even close to being a green answer. The world's carbon production will not change because of these turbines, oil drilling will not change, and the oil spills will continue. What they do however is provide a false hope to the ignorant, fill corporate bank accounts with rigged profits and contribute to more worldwide habitat destruction from a corporate run world.
WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
Windmill uses Slam. It's super effective!
SpazzyMcGee1337 10 months ago
sad
jackierooose 10 months ago
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franny96MJ 10 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
fatality! windmill wins
FoxDX2 10 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
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Just a reminder. All my comments are for the intelligent viewers that have a sense of community and want to contribute towards a better world.
WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 10 months ago
That Is A Fucking Windmill Win!
KYL3xS0xS0xSIcKK 10 months ago
lmfao. i can't stop laughing.
therabidliger 10 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 11 months ago
@WiegandsWindow Yup and then we can use horriable nuclear products to pollute the area and to force animals to die and be driven away. Good idea
camaros65 10 months ago
This is just a small example of what the econazis have given us with their bought and payed for politicians and media campaigns. There is a genocide against the creatures of the sky everyday and you can't wash this bird and send it on its way. I would call PETA but those wackjobs think pets have a soul.
SuperBigblue19 11 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 11 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 11 months ago
There are trade offs to all of our energy options. How many birds die in an oil spill? How many birds and fish will die if the ocean acidity passes a critical point due to increased CO2?
casehater 11 months ago
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WiegandsWindow 11 months ago
Windmill one, vultures zip. JMHO
JustMyHonestOpinion 11 months ago
Lethal footage of protected birds being smashed by wind turbine blades could actually be taken thousands of times every day across the world. All anyone would have to do is set 24 hour surveillance cameras on the turbines. The wind industry is very aware of this and with their army of corrupt biologists and politicians, they have conspired in a decades long cover up concerning wind turbine mortality. The truth is, wind turbines kill every species of bird that is forced to share the same habitat.
WiegandsWindow 11 months ago
Stupid bird deserved to die. "Hey, let's go fly around this big spinny thing!"
PregnantFox 11 months ago
this guy is a legend who filmed this.
GrahamCrusty 11 months ago
What a shame
davewinst1 11 months ago
PWND
TheJollass 11 months ago
See what you leftist progessive idiots get with your, "clean and green", energy?
jjmnky 1 year ago
how did u even catch this lol
XirOa 1 year ago
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Greek people are inherently retarded
ajawofcopan 1 year ago
Proposed wind farm imperils two falcon nest sites in New Hampshire IBERDROLA/Audubon involved in bogus studies. Fraudulent Environmental Impact studies are paving the way for the $120 million Groton Wind Project to move forward despite very real danger to threatened species, including the Peregrine Falcon. Mortality would come from falcons colliding with the turbine blades as well as the environmental degradation caused by the construction. Deadline to approve/deny the project is April 26, 2011
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
if i wouldve been there i woulda run up to that fucking rat with wings and twisted his fucking head off hahahahahahah
muldoon55 1 year ago
owned
junkrat1 1 year ago
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WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
Folks that truly want to be enlightened on the insidious nature of the wind industry should read about what has been done to the California Condor. It is discussed in the recent editorial concerning the Tule Wind Project published in the East County Magazine. No bird species, no matter how precious, is safe from this greed driven industry.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
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WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
@MLPSTORM On one hand, I want to say "really, are we going this route"? But, on the other hand, there were sounds RIGHT as it was being hit, and there's not way they could've heard that from that distance, and people just happened to get video on the one turbine that had a vulture flying around it. Why else would they be recording? Did they know this vulture was going to kick the bucket?
chiefofsages 1 year ago
While this is a sad incident, to sit here and rant that wind turbines are evil and kill so many birds, why don't we also look at other factors? Cats kill hundreds of millions of birds each year, and birds just flying into windows kill even more. Nobody says "let's get rid of cats" or "Stop using windows!". So, if the birds dying are the real issue, fight to take down cats and windows, not wind turbines which kill less than a million birds a year (if anywhere near that).
chiefofsages 1 year ago
I know from personal experience that the wind/Oil industry is represented by notorious lairs that routinely rig data and studies. I am an expert on birds of prey and have seen many rigged wind industry Environmental impact reports and studies. In fact I have never seen an honest one. Wind farms produce energy but they also create killing fields for birds and bats.
When is the media going to put an honest spotlight on this fraudulent industry?
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
Besides slaughtering birds and bats, Wind farms have a profound effect on real estate values. Donald Trump, who know a bit about real estate, also knows this. That is why he is fighting plans for an offshore wind farm that will be overlooking his Scots golf development. Yet there are many fraudulent wind industry studies that have been produced showing there is no loss of value to real estate in the communities where these turbines have been installed.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
you should have gone over to it and killed it. i hope you did. it would be worse to leave it in agony. poor thing
lewisisdaman 1 year ago
What happened to the bird later. Did he survive?
natija08 1 year ago
Redneck bird lol
thehumandictionary 1 year ago
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I'M HIT!!
MAYDAY MAYDAY!!
HyperSonicXtreme 1 year ago
It is hard to believe that there are such Dumb Folks in this world. What kind of idiot would think video was rigged. What is seen here happens to thousands of birds, every single day across the world.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
omg stupid bird
DoluxoTV 1 year ago
You could hear his wing crack
machinima31 1 year ago
OUTSTANDING!!!
crazyjak87 1 year ago
Povera bestia :(
sbimo89 1 year ago
Lol who's top shit now?
nickrod32 1 year ago
Poor poor animal!!! The responsible should the the owner of the windmills, but did you help the eagle?!
microelsa 1 year ago
@microelsa its a vulture and it killed itself, whos fault is it when a bird flies into a tornado or a waterfall and dies?
panzersherek 1 year ago
@panzersherek
You witnessed the bird suffering, right? So, i asked if you helped...
microelsa 1 year ago
@microelsa I was not there, and didn't claim to be and what would you expect him to do? tape it back together? if anything he should of put it out of its misery, but you can be charged for killing an animal so therefore the thing to do in this situation is.........nothing.
panzersherek 1 year ago
@microelsa that was some fuckin funny shit right?
muldoon55 1 year ago
sad , its the first time i have seen this , solutions can be found
spaceshipearth999 1 year ago
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A perfect case in point about how deadly the propeller style wind turbine is to rare and endangered species can be illustrated with the association of the Golden Eagle and the 10 square mile area of the Altamont Pass Wind Farm. Here it is easily the number one killer of this species in this habitat.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
The Altamont wind farm sits on prime hunting grounds for the Golden Eagle. Yet at this 10 square mile area 50-75 Golden eagles are killed each year. If the turbines were not there, less than one Golden Eagle a year would die each year at this location by all other types of mortality combined. There is no question that the wind turbines are the NUMBER ONE KILLER in this habitat. Nothing else even comes close. The windows/ mortality propaganda is just part of the wind industry fraud.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
@WiegandsWindow
Well, there are other accidents with wind-turbines as well. So far this year there has been 71 accidents involving wind-turbines. There has been 3 fatalities and 6 injuries. This data is little old though, there might be more fatalities and injuries by now.
And around 1/3 of the fatalities were public, meaning that the deceased were transport workers, civilians etc.
Sasupoika2 1 year ago
FOOD!! It's raining food!!
Hey people, we can not mitigate EVERYTHING in life... why don't we re engineer cars so that we don't hit dogs and cats and other people. Let's re engineer our hospitals so NO ONE dies in them..
Dr. Daniel Klem of Muhlenberg College has done studies over a period of 20 years, looking at bird collisions with windows. His conclusion: glass kills more birds than any other human related factor.
leonscorpio19 1 year ago
They should put up a warning sign for them saying:
Don't fly to close to the windmill!
FinalFantasyBlades 1 year ago
This is a very conservative quote from Dr. Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy......... In the United states "At the current estimated mortality rate of 3-11 birds per mw, the wind industry will be killing 900,000 to 1.8 million birds per year by the year 2030 . Keep in mind that most of the birds killed are protected species. In CA at just the Altamont Pass wind farm, over 2000 golden Eagles have been killed by the propeller style wind turbine.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
A peer reviewed study that was published in Spain from SEO/BirdLife stated that as many as a 64 birds were killed by a single turbine each year. The Wolf Island study found a death rate 15 dead birds and 24 dead bats per turbine/year. It is well known that researchers never find all the dead bodies because of scavengers. In the US there are over 30,000 wind turbines and there are over 150,000 installed turbines worldwide. It is a fact that MILLIONS of birds and bats are killed annually.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
Very sad video. Happens all too often, I'm sure. There's got to be a better design. The problem is, companies are probably not inclined to scrap these machines for new ones even if so. Those turbines are HUGE.
hayleyhross 1 year ago
@JahaysusKahrist: I don't think they have Ca. Condors in Crete. Just a thought. :)
hayleyhross 1 year ago
povero...
Cronox88 1 year ago
I'm not sure if that's a Vulture, it looks more like a rare California Condor, look it up at the Audubon website and see for yourself, there's not even a 1000 in the wild
JahaysusKahrist 1 year ago
For anyone that does not believe Washington DC is corrupt , just look at today's news about the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. They were exposed for trying to influence an independent and scientific report in BP's favor. This garbage is routine in Washington
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
This is a very conservative quote from Dr. Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy......... In the United states "At the current estimated mortality rate of 3-11 birds per mw, the wind industry will be killing 900,000 to 1.8 million birds per year by the year 2030 . Keep in mind that most of the birds killed are protected species. In CA at just the Altamont Pass wind farm, over 2000 golden Eagles have been killed by the propeller style wind turbine.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
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The study I quoted isnt one single source. It is complied from numerous studies and multiple avian experts who have devoted their lives to birds. They took into account all factors. It is hands down the most complete study to date. Saying things like the USFWS is corrupt isnt making you any more believeable. In fact if it wasnt for the USFWS.. half of the birds you are trying to defend wouldnt even exist today.
kingofquartz 1 year ago
@kingofquartz Sadly the USFWS along with many other Washington DC Agencies are Corrupt. This is where laws and policy are made. I have been in contact with Govt. personnel at the lower levels of both wildlife and forest agencies. They are not happy with Washington and the good work of many is going to waste. If they speak out...... they are railroaded with mafia like tactics. The USFWS, the EPA the BLM and the USDA are not what they used to be
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago
@WiegandsWindow
Look, your intentions are great. But when you start ranting about conspiracy jargon and saying the USFWS is corrupt, ect, then no one but nut balls will take you seriously.
The USFWS is the reason we still have condors.. so saying they dont care if they are all slaughtered just makes you sound a bit fruity. You cant change anything that way, you have to control your emotions and maybe try to work with the USFWS. Trust me.. work I have done with USFS & AGFC has done wonders.
kingofquartz 1 year ago
@kingofquartz There you go again..........Saying things I haven't said. It appears that you have very poor reading skills and comprehension.
WiegandsWindow 1 year ago