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To: SaxxonWoods
"The bats fly past the blades just fine and die when the turbulence crushes their lungs. "

This is quite hard for me to believe, got a link? Wind isn't highly concentrated energy, short of a violent storm. The windmill extracts energy from the wind or it would not work. It seems unlikely there is enough pressure to crush an animal with a very small surface area.

I once read you can hit a bat by swinging a stick in the air, but it never worked for me when I tried in my more mischievous days.

Now, as a sort of penance, I have two bat houses on the sides of my house.

45 posted on 06/28/2013 5:28:09 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: HangThemHigh

Sorry, don’t have a link. My BiL is a retired research engineer, rather famous for his nuclear rocket fuel work. He started studying wind turbines after a wind farm went in behind his house and has testified before the Idaho State Legislature on the issue. He’s the one who gave me the information.


58 posted on 06/28/2013 3:17:49 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: HangThemHigh

Sorry, don’t have a link. My BiL is a retired research engineer, rather famous for his nuclear rocket fuel work. He started studying wind turbines after a wind farm went in behind his house and has testified before the Idaho State Legislature on the issue. He’s the one who gave me the information.


59 posted on 06/28/2013 3:24:10 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: HangThemHigh

Do the rotating blades possibly disrupt the bat’s radar system?


60 posted on 06/28/2013 3:26:18 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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