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Windmills to shut at night following demise of rare bat
Tribune-Democrat ^ | 10/17/11 | Kathy Mellott

Posted on 10/18/2011 11:47:26 AM PDT by Libloather

Windmills to shut at night following demise of rare bat
Kathy Mellott - The Tribune-Democrat
October 17, 2011

LILLY — Night operation of the windmills in the North Allegheny Windpower Project has been halted following discovery of a dead Indiana bat under one of the turbines, an official with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday.

The finding marks only the second location where an Indiana bat has been found dead under a wind turbine. Two Indiana bats were found under turbines in the Mid-west, said Clint Riley, supervisor for Fish and Wildlife’s Pennsylvania field office.

“While finding the dead bat is not good news for any of us, it does show the monitoring works,” Riley said from his State College office.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bat; bats; energy; envirofascism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; green; greenenergy; indianabat; moonbat; power; shutdown; thegreenlie; wind; windmill; windpower
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To: youngidiot
Probably were found by the same fool that killed them and put them there.
21 posted on 10/18/2011 12:31:47 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: American in Israel

If you believe that you have never been in a coal mine. But then maybe you were in one that had the no bats in cave sign.


22 posted on 10/18/2011 12:33:37 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Libloather

One of the vital (but rarely mentioned) benefits of wind energy is the supply of shredded poultry downstream for the victims of the Obama Depression.


23 posted on 10/18/2011 12:37:09 PM PDT by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: Libloather
The rare Indiana bat is a threatened species.

Meanwhile, in other news, the Moon bat (known for it's enlarged left wing) is occupying public parks around the western world.

24 posted on 10/18/2011 12:51:50 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Wind turbines shut down at night? Supplement with photovoltaic power!


25 posted on 10/18/2011 12:54:06 PM PDT by Rio
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Meanwhile, in other news, the Moon bat (known for it's enlarged left wing) is occupying public parks around the western world.

That's not the only place you find them...

Moonbat

26 posted on 10/18/2011 12:57:56 PM PDT by doc11355
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Meanwhile, in other news, the Moon bat (known for it's enlarged left wing) is occupying public parks around the western world.

LOL...clever

27 posted on 10/18/2011 12:58:52 PM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Libloather

Was it a moonbat?


28 posted on 10/18/2011 1:04:17 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: org.whodat
"Bats radar jammed by cell phone, it is the windmills fault. I had an owl hit my windshield once, do I need to stop driving."

Well, Obama does want mass transit almost anywhere where it doesn't make any sense otherwise. So watch out who you ask; some leftist will think that private cars should be outlawed.

29 posted on 10/18/2011 1:07:44 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Libloather

Not to worry, just switch to solar power.....


30 posted on 10/18/2011 1:11:56 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Libloather

So instead of taking 20 years to pay for themselves, windmills will now take 30 yeras to pay for themselves. Of course that’s providing they don’t require maintenance costs.


31 posted on 10/18/2011 1:13:12 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: Truth29
LOL, no doubt.
32 posted on 10/18/2011 1:19:07 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Libloather
"And what were Indiana bats doing in Pennsylvania anyway?"

I was born in Indiana, PA. So was Jimmy Stewart :-)

According to Wikipedia, This breed of bat also shut down a windfarm in West Virginia in 2009.

33 posted on 10/18/2011 1:19:41 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: douginthearmy

So: What kids of birds are they killing during the day?

I don’t see the problem, we don’t need electricity at night anyway. The Amish don’t have it and they get along fine. In fact they breed in the dark while we are watching TV.They have big families as a rsult of no electricity.


34 posted on 10/18/2011 1:19:52 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: newzjunkey
A vampire, that is a liberal, moonbat, comes from and is similar too governor moonbeam. But that is just a guess.
35 posted on 10/18/2011 1:23:22 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
So the bats were the original occupiers. Dang, shut the place down, way to go bats, who made their protest signs.
36 posted on 10/18/2011 1:26:08 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Libloather

OK, what stops the blades from turning at night? Is there some sort of automatic feathering of the prop? Does it lock in place? What kind of stress does that place on the mechanics of the beast?


38 posted on 10/18/2011 2:22:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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To: Beowulf9

Evolution and natural selection, mainstays of the progressive imagination, would eventually result in bats which avoided windmills. Let it be. Let’s see who’s right.


39 posted on 10/18/2011 3:57:29 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: Libloather

I’m torn. I’m as much for inexpensive, economic energy for all as anyone. But unlike most other animals, bats really are endangered, and they multiply so slowly that it doesn’t take much to devastate a population.


40 posted on 10/18/2011 6:52:55 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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