http://www.heartland.org/publications/environment%20climate/article/26818/Judge_Halts_West_Virginia_Wind_Farm_to_Save_Bats.html
I am pro-windmill. I think a solution can be found to train the bats to adapt to windmills. They are going to have to learn to co-exist eventually, so somebody needs to invent something, or find a suitable compromise. LED lights on the propeller might work. A bat house on top of the tower might work, as the bats would become more familiar with the rotation characteristics of the blades. Or some kind of sonar gadget attached to the tip of the blade that sends out a warning to the bats to back off. Or maybe the propellers can be slowed down during feeding times, so that less bats are killed. Why prohibit windmills during the day when bats are not flying? Maybe the windmill company's saw this coming in the early stages of the design of the windmill farms, and developed a secret white fungus to eradicate the bats? That would make a good movie or novel. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
