This is for you, T. Boone!
Posted on 08/25/2008 5:08:35 PM PDT by zeestephen
Wind turbines can kill bats without touching them by causing a bends-like condition due to rapidly dropping air pressure, new research suggests.
...scientist Erin Baerwald and colleagues report that only about half of the bat corpses they found near Alberta, Canada, turbine bases showed any physical evidence of being hit by a blade.
A surprising 90 percent showed signs of internal hemorrhaging—evidence of a drop in air pressure near the blades that causes fatal damage to the bats' lungs.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Where are the “Save the Bats” tree-huggers when you need them? Why isn’t someone sitting on top of one of those turbines in protest? I just don’t understand! /sarc
But this is PC energy generation don’t you see. The eviro-freaks don’t mind raptors and other birds being whacked by rotors, now it’s bats. Boy, that ought to get some folks riled up!
Seriously, there are complaints about rotor-wash noise and a high pitched whine (I guess the turbine noise) that really drives folks that live nearby to distraction. I know the whine would have my tinnitus going like crazy especially if the frequency was not in sync!! Lordy! What have we wrought?!
Ah well, now we need to set them up off of Sandy Hook and the coastal areas...poor ol’ West Texas (our country) has its share, let’s aggravate some Downeasters for a change.
There could br some truth to
this,It’s just that these people have cried wolf so many times no body listens anymore
Or it’s because they hang from the blades when it’s not turning, and when the wind starts blowing....
The folks who live in and around Mohave, California, calim that the turbines leading up to Tahachapi are the cause of the reduction in bird populations, especially hawks.
This is for you, T. Boone!
I just cannot believe that you are doubting the sincerity of our good friends the tree huggers! /sarc
the sky-bends. awesome!
If it is not a refinery, nuke plant, Wal-Mart store, loggers or any other thing that would benefit our economy or life styles they are against progress. We are ruled by the wishes of a few nitwits sort like the feminazis.
this sounds like the same form of power exhibited by Jedi’s in Star Wars... ;)
With bat-eating supercell thunderstorms about, I wouldn’t sweat the wind turbines...
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/coolimg/batrad/index.html
I don’t know about the “We are ruled by...” part, but they sure seem to have more influence than is prudent.
We have a wond farm going up here in central Illinois. Out in the corn fields....Farmers are getting $5000 per year per wind mill...
I don’t think that there’s a live bat within miles of here...to begin with...
This is another example of the left being against anything...
I guess you are right, seems like an awful lot of left wing commies deciding what is best for us.
You’re right. Those Environmentalist should go after the makers of the Wind turbines.
If they can stop the construction of a dam for guppies, or the cutting of lumber in the Northweast for an owl. What about those lovely bats that kill insects?
I guess you are right, seems like an awful lot of left wing commies deciding what is best for us.
They worry about jets and snowmobiles causing critters' hearing loss, but who cares about the loud WHOOSH of a windmill causing hearing loss?
Can't any of them think???
Ive heard that people who live in the area of wind farms complain of a constant humming noise.
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