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Originally Posted by mincus
Steve, yeah, the bird strike complaint always amuses me too. How hard would it be though to put a "cage" around one of these. It could be made out of incredibly thin wire that doesn't affect the wind speed, but would prevent any birds from being able to fly into it. Can't imagine it would cost all that much.
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First off, a cage around a wind thingy (it's not a turbine, or generator in my mind unless it works) like this would be as big of a waste of money as the machine it's self, unless you just want something to look at and at that point why would you want a cage around it?
Real wind turbines kill about the same number of birds per year as a single window in your house, and that is about the same number as die from running in to trees, about one per year, a cage is not going to stop these birds, it will just give them a larger area to run in to, if you really love birds you would block off your windows and cut down all the trees.