>On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just got back from a short trip due to a family emergency. > >Hope everything is okay.
Unfortunately my wife's grandmother died. We drove up there yesterday to let Wendy help out. I came back since I just started a new job, I thought it best not to take a lot of time off. I'll be going back to West Virginia for the funeral on Saturday > >> One big problem with wind farms is that the turbines act as a bird and bat >> killer. >> They get caught and killed by the blades as they by the turbines. > >Yes, birds also die if they fly into clear windows or active >volcanoes. They will learn. It's called evolution. ;) Unfortunately for bats, the blades easily detected by their sonar. Given how much environmental stress they're under (see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=news-bytes-mystery-illness-strikes-bats for instance), a proliferation of bat blenders may be absolutely the wrong thing to have happen to them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264084 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
