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Bill Thompson's avatar

As always, great and timely reporting, Linda. In Australia, they refer to the area 4km around an onshore turbine as the "kill zone". Onshore turbines are a lot shorter than the offshore monstrosities in our coastal waters, so one could assume that the entire offshore wind array is one gigantic kill zone. And not just for marine life and birds.

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Tim Smith's avatar

Another great article.

Fun fact ships get struck by lightning also, I was sailing on a fully loaded oil taker and witnessed it for myself, they are designed for it and I'm still here.

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glmcclure's avatar

Seems like wind turbines are just very large “Lightning Rods”. Only they shatter.

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Ann L. Klieves's avatar

Great article, thank you so much, Linda.Sharing with my group who have been fighting these monstrosities for awhile.Every piece of data helps us!! Just one more reason not to keep building these giant kill zones!!

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