Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Wind turbines kill bats

(Thanks to Elizabeth for calling my attention to this one.)

For decades, researchers have noticed that mangled birds litter the ground surrounding the machines, and recently they've found that dead bats actually outnumber the birds, by as many as four times in some places.

- sciencenow.sciencemag.org (link here)

Every source of energy has some drawback.

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