Wise wind energy needs a deep green location Charlottesville Daily Progress

24.04.10

Like a small Christo installation, Charley’s mist net unfurled into dusk along my forest road in the Appalachian Moun-tains. The net traps birds — in this case, a northern saw-whet owl — lured in by tape-recorded calls. The persistent high-pitched beeps of saw-whets sound like a dump truck backing up.

Saw-whets inhabit much of North Ameri-ca. Some migrate south in winter, as this one was trying to do, along mountain ridges. “We think they must fly fairly low, to hear our recorder,” said Charley, a local ornithologist. “That’s what concerns us about wind turbines proposed on top of the mountains around here.”

Around the world, industrial wind plants are the fastest growing form of alternative energy.

They make electricity without producing greenhouse gases, but how truly green they are depends on where they are located.

Some turbines out west routinely kill thousands of birds, and rare sagebrush grouse stand to lose their most important habitat to concrete grids of turbine pads.

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