There also are concerns about bird and
bat fatalities with wind technology, although there may be radar systems that can slow wind turbines as birds approach.
Not exact matches
Migrating
bats such as the hoary
bat, which can travel from as far as northern Canada to Argentina and Chile, make up most of those
fatalities because they often navigate through areas dotted
with wind farms.
«Eighty percent of
fatalities occur during this three - month period,» says Hein, whose organization worked
with the industry to research the most effective ways to avoid killing
bats.
This pulled together conclusions from a number of field studies in which researchers recorded
bat fatalities while experimenting
with cut - in speeds.