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Wind Turbines and Birds Don’t Mix - or Can They?

April 3, 2008 on 1:31 pm | In Ecosystem |

Here’s an interesting article about bird friendly wind turbine in the Galapagos Islands. It seems that rather than just place the wind turbine at the best point for wind currents, the planners also took into consideration placement in terms of risk to birds.  The result: no bird fatalities yet! This would seem to suggest that wind turbines can be used with proper planning. This flies the face of what many opponents believe so it will be interesting to see how such planning can develop in future projects.

Galapagos bird brains survive wind turbines