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Wind turbines make bat lungs explode

Read more: http://environment.newscien... Researchers at the University of Calgary have found out why bats have been dying near wind turbines.  
 
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Nopiw (4 days ago) Show Hide
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BS.
ganymedeIV4 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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hah damn bats are getting the caisson disease? (the benz)

Well don't murder them all please, I rather like not having 30k mosquitos on me in the middle of summer.

wait bats eat bugs right? Guess i should ask batman.
EyeWearMySunglasses (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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lolzzz!!!
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LTDreams (3 months ago) Show Hide
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The way this information should used, is to figure out ways to warn bats and birds away. But if that is the worse consequence of wind farms, then that is a relatively cheap price to pay.
n1ckotene (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Unless your a bat of course...
westkan (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Then again commercial hunting & fishing nearly decimated non-domesticated food species. No bat's aren't a food source. but they are a beneficial predator, if wiped out in some areas would force man to spend more to do the job the bats do for free. I'm pro renewable energy, but believe history has taught us we need to tread lightly on our home planet.
westkan (3 months ago) Show Hide
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LOL u use the hyperbole 100s killed daily, without linking to the stats. I guess you have the same level credibility as the 1 u suggest has no credibility due to lack of links to stats. :)
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Westkan,
100's killed daily would not be hyperbole. This inferred in the video. 188 bats found, stress found, accounted for >60% of avian deaths at the studied site. Those numbers applied to the wide distribution of wind turbines would account for 100's of bat deaths per day, mainly in the Fall migratory period. At the Mountaineer Wind Energy Site in West Virginia they estimate yearly deaths of bats at >4K
Reference: The Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 70, No. 5 (Nov., 2006), pp. 1219-1227
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The video makers should have titled this; winds turbine cause bats to drown in own blood, if their theory is correct. They can't really know for sure until they measure the actual pressure drop, and subject some poor sacrificial bat to the same changes in the lab.

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