Comments on: New Glass Prevents Birds From Colliding with Windows http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-127825 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-127825 One billion per year.  Over many years – the life of the window.

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-127824 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-127824 Works for me.  Cut UV transmission and you keep heat out in the summer and heat in in the winter.

And you reduce bird kill by a billion or so per year.

(Who’s the idiot?)

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-127823 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:49:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-127823 This piece of dumbness was posted long ago, but just in case someone stumbles onto it.

Annual US window bird kill is around 1 billion.  Windows last for many decades.  Fixing the invisibility problem would save the life of many billions of birds.

]]> By: Roger Moreland http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-127820 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:46:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-127820 unusual but 2 birds hit my house windows today on North & West.

]]> By: James Smith, João Pessoa, Brazil http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5992 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:07:42 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5992 wtf needs health care reform. His mental health is obviously in a sad state. Or maybe he’s just stupid? No cure for that, is there?

]]> By: James Smith, João Pessoa, Braz http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23466 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:07:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23466 wtf needs health care reform. His mental health is obviously in a sad state. Or maybe he’s just stupid? No cure for that, is there?

]]> By: wtf http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5991 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:29:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5991 “the needless deaths of billions of birds which collide with windows annually”

Billions?! hahahahaha Next it will be that the birds need healthcare reform. lol

]]> By: wtf http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23465 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23465 “the needless deaths of billions of birds which collide with windows annually”

Billions?! hahahahaha Next it will be that the birds need healthcare reform. lol

]]> By: Travis Windleharth http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5990 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:51:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5990 Actually, the retrofit market for modern, high-tech solar control window films and insulated glass units (IGUs) is already large and growing. Simply piggy back this technology on the already expansive retrofit market. And actually,UV blocking layers are already becoming standard so in the future no special action will be required.

FYI the U.S. Department of Energy backs window retrofits because they are very effective with a short return on investment. Done correctly there are economic savings here.

]]> By: Travis Windleharth http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23464 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23464 Actually, the retrofit market for modern, high-tech solar control window films and insulated glass units (IGUs) is already large and growing. Simply piggy back this technology on the already expansive retrofit market. And actually,UV blocking layers are already becoming standard so in the future no special action will be required.

FYI the U.S. Department of Energy backs window retrofits because they are very effective with a short return on investment. Done correctly there are economic savings here.

]]> By: Peter http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5989 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:43:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5989 Well, like it or not and believe it or not, research supports all of this and this developement is good news. If you care for more information visit the web site (http://ACO.muhlenberg.edu) and go to the “birds and windows” link. You can learn why there are not piles of birds lying around and just why this is an important problem to solve.

Science has a way of proving things true or false.

]]> By: Peter http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23463 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23463 Well, like it or not and believe it or not, research supports all of this and this developement is good news. If you care for more information visit the web site (http://ACO.muhlenberg.edu) and go to the “birds and windows” link. You can learn why there are not piles of birds lying around and just why this is an important problem to solve.

Science has a way of proving things true or false.

]]> By: M http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5988 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:24:45 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5988 Yes lets spend that money to retrofit windows. Idiots

]]> By: M http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23462 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:24:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23462 Yes lets spend that money to retrofit windows. Idiots

]]> By: Jim Riddell http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5987 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:59:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5987 Are we really expected to believe that there are *BILLIONS* of birds that die by flying into windows? I’ve seen many buildings with a lot of glass and never seen the piles of birds that must be there if the numbers are even close to true.

If one assumes the size of a bird is two cubic inches (i.e. a House Wren, aka English sparrow) then a billion bird bodies would end up being 1.1 million cubic feet. That’s a lot. Maybe they are all hummingbirds?

]]> By: Jim Riddell http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23461 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23461 Are we really expected to believe that there are *BILLIONS* of birds that die by flying into windows? I’ve seen many buildings with a lot of glass and never seen the piles of birds that must be there if the numbers are even close to true.

If one assumes the size of a bird is two cubic inches (i.e. a House Wren, aka English sparrow) then a billion bird bodies would end up being 1.1 million cubic feet. That’s a lot. Maybe they are all hummingbirds?

]]> By: Kirk J Nason http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-5986 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:18:53 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-5986 Great article, I need this info to help support my efforts to get the City of Huntington Beach, CA to modify their building permit process fwd for urban wind.

]]> By: Kirk J Nason http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/14/new-glass-prevents-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/#comment-23460 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2781#comment-23460 Great article, I need this info to help support my efforts to get the City of Huntington Beach, CA to modify their building permit process fwd for urban wind.

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