05-03-2010, 07:08 PM
Dakota wrote:
Two years ago, PPM commissioned a study to learn how many bats could be affected by its proposed wind farm. Biologists hung nets for two nights in 10 locations and caught 138 bats. Cale calculates that if 24 nets -- that's one for each turbine -- were left up through the 14 combined weeks of seasonal bat migration, more than 16,000 bats would be caught. Each net covered an area of about 1,000 square feet. That compares to 66,000 square feet carved out by a turbine's rotating blades. "It's going to be a slaughterhouse," Cale said.
Bollocks to the 'study'. It assumes
1- Bats won't hear or see the big whooshing blades of doom
2- Bats have a common 'migration pattern.
One of the common 'worries' about wind turbines is 'all the boids that die'. And while they DO, the number of birds that run into blades is less than the number of birds that run into glass skyscrapers. And die. And nobody needs a bird death study to build a big old avian suicide machine like that.