If you like the idea of increased wind power, but you wouldn’t want to sacrifice wildlife for the sake of wind farms, consider this information from Business Week:
As a turbine blade turns, a pocket of low-pressure air trails in its wake. Bats that fly into this zone can experience a sudden expansion of the air in their lungs, causing fatal hemorrhaging.
Poor bats! OK, maybe a dead bat doesn’t bother you much. Daren Bakst gives us plenty of good reasons to be concerned about wind power.
