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To: Lane3 who wrote (109099)	4/13/2005 7:46:17 PM
From: aladin	Respond to of 793928

Karen, Looked up this: it's estimated that as many as 44,000 predatory birds have been killed over the past two decades in the Altamont Pass, east of San Francisco. Although the rows of spinning blades turn wind into electricity and make Alameda County less dependent on fossil fuel, they are also the end of the line for many birds whose annual migration route includes the pass. Concentrating on their prey on the ground, the birds fly into the blur of the windmill blades All said and done this is only a couple of thousand per year in a mountain pass. So this would make an offshore wind farm an ideal spot in my books. The Cape Cod site is also 5 miles offshore - so the windmills will be visible - but hardly an eyesore (without a scope of some sort). Birds hunting for fish stay close to the water and would not be in danger. John