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On a Wing and Low Air: The Surprising Way Wind Turbines Kill Bats
It is the pressure change--not the blades--that wipe out thousands of bats annually at wind farms By David Biello August 26, 2008 On a Wing and Low Air: The Surprising Way Wind Turbines Kill Bats: Scientific American excerpt from above: Quote:
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Wind turbines put bats under (low) pressure
Scientists probe barotrauma fatalities By Lester Haines Posted in Biology, 26th August 2008 14:09 GMT Wind turbines put bats under (low) pressure • The Register excerpt from above: Quote:
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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opps! I didn't see you already had this one.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Anyone else notice cave bats haven’t been listed as Federally endangered??? My guess is because the race is on for BigWind and our bats are gonna get the short end of the stick. BigWind and their sprawling wind farms would have big time problems working around the endangered species act. Gloria> the problem for bats is called barotrauma... Current Biology - Barotrauma is a significant cause of bat fatalities at wind turbines. I seriously doubt bats can be taught to exhale when flying past these industrial wind turbines to avoid death but…. I’m sure when the US finally gets backed into a corner and can’t ignore demands for more research to save bats…. er uh…. industrial wind farms…. our tax dollars will go to the wind proponents’ pseudo-science.
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