Don Quixote

My lunch biddies chided me today about Trump thinking that windmills cause cancer ... something that I had not heard about. So I came home, full of beef brisket and Cel-Ray tonic, and looked it up ... see: The Hill Story. Actually, Trump said three things about wind turbines (not windmills):

1) they decrease nearby home values by 75%
2) their noise is claimed to cause cancer
3) they kill lots of birds

Are these claims reasonable? I then researched this matter further. See the following links:

1) Maybe not down 75% ... but certainly down 20 to 50% ... see: Forbes Article.
2) Probably not cancer ... but many other health problems ... see: How Stuff Works.
3) In the US, wid turbines kill more tha a half a million birds a year ... see: Live Science Data

Now, dear reader, was Trump lying ... or just being quixotic?

Giving the Bird

I confess. I am a 5G skeptic ... see: Mind Boggling. Yes, 5G technology may be required for eeffective and safe driverless cars ... and for live streaming of high-resolution video. But it appears it will come with a cost ... possibly too high a cost. A recent 5G test in the Netherlands has resulted in alarming number of dead birds ... see: Captain Planet Story. It seems that we have not been killing enough birds with our  giant windmills. Now we have to fry them with high-energy RF waves eminating from 5G transmitters that will have to be located everywhere.

It is estimated that, for the US to go completely 5G, there would need to be millions of transmitters. Extrapolating from the tests of this technology at The Hague, this could mean the quick deaths of hundreds of millions of birds. And who knows how this mass kill-off would evolve over time ... or whether other species would be affected ... like man?

Where are you, Rachael Carson, now that we need you?