Re: same cel phone towers, different question

[Dick King <king@reasoning.com>]

  Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 14:21:24 -0500
  From: Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>
  To: RADSAFE <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
  Subject: Re: same cel phone towers, different question
  Message-ID: <38690DB3.D4761B7@icx.net>

  In fact, towers are far more dangerous than hi-rises to migrating birds
  due to their placement on ridgetops and the intense lighting in many
  otherwise dark areas. Many birds tend to migrate along the ridges
  (witness the enormous flights of raptors at Pennsylvania's Hawk
  Mountain) and are confused by the lights, causing them to collide with
  towers and guy wires.

  The impact on bird populations is a far better reason to oppose
  uncontrolled placement of these towers than any perceived human health
  effects from radiation.

I would take this argument a lot more seriously if the sort of people who were
opposing cellular towers weren't evidently willing to give energy windmills a
"pass" on this issue.  I recall an estimate of a few dozen endangered raptors
per year killed in a single windmill farm in Pocheco Pass [spelling?] in
California.  This windmill farm only produces a few hundred megawatts, and that
only part time.  Could you imagine the outcry if a nuclear power plant [at
about ten times the averaged capacity] were to kill a few dozen members of
endangered species of raptor anually as an intrinsic consequence of their
operation principles???

  My own opinion,
  Susan Gawarecki

and mine...

-dk, who gets annoyed when he comes home from work by bike and his hungry lungs
     and contact lenses get assaulted by neighbors who have chosen to split and
     burn wood instead of atoms

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