Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
The study ran for nine years at Norway's Smøla wind farm.
JONATHAN M. GITLIN - 8/25/2020, 1:43 PM
Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds... killed each year by wind turbines. According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths.
WILL THIS RUIN JAMES DELINGPOLE'S HAPPY NEW YEAR ?
Why I call wind turbines bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes
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| James Delingpole, The Telegraph Jun 19, 2013 I wonder what it will take before the world truly wakes up to the horror, the corruption, the expense, the pointlessness, the total wrongness-in-every-way of the wind industry. My guess – and it will happen – is the decapitation, by a rogue turbine blade, of an innocent passer-by. |
Gull decapitated by a Brighton wind turbine (© Marian Cleary)
Till then, though, we have photographs like this to send the mind boggling as to why anyone, anywhere can still be so purblind as to go on championing these bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco crucifixes.
