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Barbara Monaco @Barbramon1@mas.to
· 2mo ago
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Bird fatalities drop by 72% when one rotor of wind turbine is painted black. #windturbines#greenenergy#birds https://www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-norwegian-island-black-turbine-blade-white-tailed-eagles/29212/
Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the unpainted turbines beside them went from 7 birds found to 18
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Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the unpainted turbines beside them went from 7 birds found to 18

It came out of a report on how a bird's eye handles fast movement, written for an American energy laboratory back when most turbines were a third of

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Anthropy @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
· 6mo ago
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one of the problems with the small turbinez is that it has no brake, and it's still 2M diameter so it has some punch when it's rotating, so you kinda have to grab it when it doesn't spin and hold it still while you work on it #windturbines #OffgridWind
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