Birds aren’t the only victims of the environmentalists’ favorite source of power. Wind turbines kill 5 to 10 times more bats than birds. Nearby turbines in the Appalcians seems to be the worste culprits. This article tells of one horror story from 2003 where 2,092 bats were killed by wind turbines on Backbone Mountain in western Maryland. One analyst called this “by far the largest bat mortality event I know of worldwide and, as far as I know, the biggest mortality event of any animal.”