Unique study: birds avoid wind turbine blades
group.vattenfall.com
Seabirds deliberately avoid wind turbine rotor blades offshore – that is the main finding of a new study that mapped the flightpaths of thousands of birds around wind turbines in the North Sea. Most importantly, during two years of monitoring using cameras and radar, not a single bird was recorded colliding with a rotor blade.
  • blobjim [he/him]
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    1 年前

    lol this is literally a press release on a Wind energy company's website, specifically "one of Europe’s largest energy companies" according to themsevles. You're seriously posting a company's press release on here?

    Vattenfall is Denmark’s largest offshore wind operator, and is also active in onshore wind, charging solutions and electricity supply.

    lmao

    • Parzivus [any]
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      1 年前

      Companies employ consulting studies pretty regularly to make sure they won't be held liable for environmental damages either. It's not the same vein as PR research because good PR/fake results don't stop lawsuits. I don't know about Denmark, but in the US, they'd be following EPA standards for an Environmental Site Assessment.
      The study is linked in the article, they used a combination of video cameras and radar detectors. Please let me know if any of it is inaccurate.

      • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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        1 年前

        They way to know if any of it is accurate is if studies not funded by them have reached the same conclusion

        • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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          1 年前

          Honestly I need to see some darn good proof that windmills do kill a lot of birds in the first place.