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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Aug 26, 2024, 01:39 PM Aug 26

Oregon researchers paint wind turbines partly black to reduce bird deaths

A simple coat of black paint on the white blade of a wind turbine could save countless birds from flying into the machines and to their deaths each year.

It’s working in Norway, and now researchers from Oregon State University are trying it in the West. With $400,000 allocated by the state Legislature, Christian Hagen, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, is leading a team that’s painting turbines at a PacifiCorp wind farm in Wyoming. A doctoral student and officials with the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Department of Energy are collaborating on the project.

Studies show that wind turbines kill anywhere from 140,000 to nearly half a million birds each year, in addition to the hundreds of millions killed each year by flying into buildings or by house cats.

A study from Norwegian researchers published in 2020 in the journal Ecology and Evolution found painting one of the three blades of a wind turbine black reduced bird mortality by more than 70%. Researchers found that birds – especially birds that hunt from high in the sky such as eagles, hawks and other raptors – experience “motion smear” that prevents them from seeing a fast moving, monochromatic object up close. They don’t see it because their retinas can’t keep up with the velocity of the blade. With one blade painted black, it creates a contrast between the blades, increasing visibility and reducing the motion-smearing effect, researchers found.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/oregon-researchers-paint-wind-turbines-partly-black-to-reduce-bird-deaths/

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Oregon researchers paint wind turbines partly black to reduce bird deaths (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 26 OP
Excellent!!! calimary Aug 26 #1
Fantastic...... Butterflylady Aug 26 #2
K&R SheltieLover Aug 26 #3
No,.. no,.. you can't do this. magicarpet Aug 26 #4
Oh,.. also too,... magicarpet Aug 26 #5

magicarpet

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4. No,.. no,.. you can't do this.
Mon Aug 26, 2024, 01:53 PM
Aug 26

"President" trDUMP has weaponized the windmill bird kill issue to put down green methods of electricity production.

Drill baby drill - carbon intensive non-renewable petroleum resourse are the only way America should be generating electricity.

Green electric power is socialist commie power. trDUMP says AmeriKKKa should not tolerate that shit. Besides it looks ugly by his premium class golf courses and his fancy condo development towers.

magicarpet

(16,186 posts)
5. Oh,.. also too,...
Mon Aug 26, 2024, 02:03 PM
Aug 26

The noise the blades make going round and round....

... get this....

.... gives people cancer.

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