bat kills Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:15:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Bat Fatalities Could Be Reduced By Increasing Start Wind Speed Threshold For Wind Turbines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reduce-bat-fatalities-wind-turbine-20101102/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reduce-bat-fatalities-wind-turbine-20101102/#respond Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:15:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11586 A study performed by Edward Arnett, from Bat Conservation International in Austing, TX, and his colleagues, have determined that wind turbine operators could lower bat deaths by as much as 93 percent and at least 44 percent by raising the wind speed threshold at which the turbines begin to spin.

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