| Limitations of Wind energy: | | | | to reduce bird kills have included |
| No electricity when there is any wind | | | | painting the tips of turbine blades to |
| The limitation of wind power is that no | | | | try to make them more visible to birds |
| electricity is produced when the wind is | | | | and installing screens around |
| not blowing. Thus, it cannot be used as | | | | generators. These measures have failed |
| a dependable source of base load power. | | | | to substantially lower the number of |
| Utilities and merchant generators will | | | | bird deaths. |
| not invest huge sums of money into a | | | | Bat kills are the latest big problem for |
| technology that does not work when the | | | | wind farmers. Researcher's estimate |
| wind is not blowing. Americans want the | | | | that 1,500 to 4,000 bats were killed at |
| lights on when they flip the switch, no | | | | the Mountaineer Wind Energy Center in |
| questions asked. Wind power will | | | | Western Maryland in 2004. This is |
| probably increase its market share when | | | | raising concerns about an expansion of |
| we develop a 'smart grid' that can | | | | wind turbine use at Backbon Mountain in |
| handle multiple distributed generation | | | | Maryland, where Clipper Wind power, |
| input sources of electrical power. | | | | Inc.of California is planning to build a |
| Wind Turbines Killing Migrating Birds | | | | project 20 miles away from the |
| It has been estimated that about 45,000 | | | | Mountaineer site. |
| birds (golden eagles, kestrels and | | | | Solutions of limitations: |
| red-tailed hawks) have been killed over | | | | We should build wind turbines where |
| the past twenty years by the whirling | | | | there is too much of wind like near sea |
| blades of wind turbines. The rows of | | | | so there will be 24 hours electricity |
| spinning blades at Altamont Pass, east | | | | and the problem of electricity will be |
| of San Francisco, turn wind into | | | | solved and there are less birds near sea |
| electricity, but they are killing many | | | | so the problem of killing birds will |
| predatory birds whose annual migration | | | | also be solved. |
| route includes the pass. Past attempts | | | | |