Sentences with phrase «bat deaths by»
Experiments at a site in Indiana in 2012 showed that feathering turbines when winds were slow reduced bat deaths by 30 percent on average.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/ Not exact matches
So bad and scary when the deaths are from «terrorism,» but no one bats an eye when it is from your ordinary drive by / domestic dispute.
After pretending that he got hit with a pitch to the hands (that really hit the knob of the bat), Christian Walker avoided certain death by the hair of his helmy - helm helmet.
While conducting their biannual survey of the local bat population, his surveyors had walked into a cave near Albany and found themselves surrounded by death.
As a result, bat deaths were reduced by 44 to 93 percent, with less than 1 percent annual power loss.
He has narrowly escaped all manner of unpleasant deaths such as drowning and being trampled by a charging elephant, and suffered the destruction of a sizeable chunk of his lungs by ammonia rising from piles of bat dung.
Merlin Tuttle defied death by charging elephant, damaged his lungs by inhaling ammonia and braved spear - waving hunters — all to transform the bat's image
Three screenings today, and the final experiential tally includes three bared buttocks, approximately 13 deaths, one ripped - off mustache, one scene of Malin Akerman preparing to do some blow, one vampire squirrel, one gay smooch, two mentions of the Kardashians, one joke at the expense of Lindsay Lohan, one drunken toast by Elijah Wood, one FOX News reference and one decapitation by baseball bat.
The majority of human rabies deaths in the last 20 years in the United States have been caused by the rabies virus of bats.
More than 80 % of of the deaths in several bat populations in the northeastern United States and Canada have been caused by a fungus - indirectly.
Scientists hypothesize that bat deaths from the fungus are caused by them being roused during hibernation.
North American studies of bat deaths and wind turbines have found bats are killed either by being struck by turbine blades or by air pressure changes caused by the turbines that burst blood vessels in their lungs.
A recent National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) review of peer - reviewed research found evidence of bird and bat deaths from collisions with wind turbines and due to changes in air pressure caused by the spinning turbines, as well as from habitat disruption.
We are thus really talking about an unsustainable death toll of 30 million birds and 50 million bats a year — and more still if we factor in other hide - the - mortality tricks documented by STEI.
A study of bat deaths at a local wind farm by the University of Calgary reported by Science Daily found that the majority of migratory bats in this location were killed because a sudden drop in air pressure near the blades caused injuries to the bats» lungs known as barotrauma.
It was found to reduce bat deaths from wind turbines by up to 60 % without significantly reducing the energy generated from the wind farm.
Post-operation, the numbers of bat deaths and bird kills far exceed what was expected from the wind turbines, noise complaints are being made more frequently as a result of more powerful turbines, and wind power companies have abused their approvals by removing trees from protected woodlands, for example, or placing turbines on sites not consistent with the approvals.
* the amount of bird deaths, bat deaths and the small comparative amount of CO2 actually offset by the use of wind turbines does not make sense.
Note that if 50 % of the bats were killed solely by barotrauma and barotrauma was a contributing cause of death in 90 % of deaths then it follows that the bats killed by this cause must have to fly quite close to a moving blade to be injured by barotrauma.
«Scientists at the University of Calgary have found a way to reduce bat deaths from wind turbines by up to 60 percent without significantly reducing the energy generated from the wind farm.
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