Sentences with phrase «of bat deaths»

The authors suggested that this could be done at times of greatest likelihood of bat deaths with little effect on power generation.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

No, they do so based on a book of fairy tales where a man lives in a fish's gut for three days, where angles of death come and play in egypt and where bats are birds.

It went through an entire season, postseason, and seven - game World Series last year only to suffer a tragic and heartbreaking death at the bats of the Cubs.

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.

So tell me this, Aguero goes missing for first 4 - 5 games in the starting of EPL, no one bats an eye, he gets 5 goals in a game, everybody chants his name to death.

The NYPD cop who was acquitted in the shooting death of a bat - wielding schizophrenic Bronx woman has been hit with a fresh set of departmental charges related to the matter,...

The good news, at least for now: No bat deaths have been attributed to the disease in Missouri, says bat biologist Tony Elliott with the state's Department of Conservation.

Worldwide, such facilities have been responsible for the deaths of 140,000 to 328,000 birds and 500,000 to 1.6 million bats, raising questions about their effects on population sustainability.

Ecologists can reveal the frequency of bird and bat deaths in wind turbines, the traffic of birds around airports and the potential for distribution of disease and disease vectors.

The bat - borne virus that it was based on has caused hundreds of deaths since it appeared in the 1990s.

As North American bats face a death toll approaching 7 million, University of Akron scientists reveal new clues about their killer, White Nose Syndrome, or WNS.

Researchers look beyond white - nose syndrome as the prime suspect in the mysterious deaths of bats in the U.S. Northeast

As I gazed out across the city, I wondered if Vietnam feltlike this: you rode like bats out of hell, through the land of death anddestruction, suffering everywhere you looked, until at some moment, after youbroke free from the ground fire, you'd see as you looked all around you howbeautiful the night sky was.

Such behavior is thought to be one reason behind infected bats» loss of fat reserves, emaciation and death.

But this is time - consuming, and it requires special facilities — and the death of the bat.

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.

Because of white nose syndrome, mounting public pressure and scrutiny from wildlife officials have become a major motivator for wind energy companies to figure out how to prevent bat deaths.

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.

He believes the disease, which in its worst form can cause uncontrollable haemorrhaging and an agonising death, could turn up at any time, courtesy of a roving fruit bat.

«There could be something already weakening them,» Mulembakani says of the alarming death rate, pointing out a parasitic growth on one bat's stomach, and an oozing wound on another's shoulder.

The report recommends improving bird - and bat - death monitoring through the use of sniffer dogs, video cameras, and daily surveys.

Deaths due to adverse events were observed in 27 (12 %) patients in the pacritinib group and 14 (13 %) patients in the BAT group throughout the duration of the study.

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.

In addition to the Bloodbath Arena DLC, the Dead Island Special Edition will sport an exclusive piece of cover art and the blueprint for a special weapon, called the «Ripper»: A destructive combination of a baseball bat and a buzz saw that leaves attacking zombies battered and bleeding to death.

The majority of human rabies deaths in the last 20 years in the United States have been caused by the rabies virus of bats.

I had to remind myself not to play it in front of my kids, as it's really not appropriate to run around with an adult toy the size of a baseball bat clubbing people to death — but that's the type of gameplay you can expect.

Fake me own death, then pretend to be bats and fool all of Gotham:-D that my theory

I ended up fighting a Big Sister right off the bat, and it took me a few deaths to get the feel of the game again.

When you are not reeking havoc, you can enjoy the more humorous side of the game like beating people do death with a giant purple dildo bat or completing one of the games challenges, like running over crowds of people on the side walk... oh wait, that's still reeking havoc.

I am not sure if it is a joke about RPG weapon names, or they went to town on terrible RPG weapon names, but you do find items like «The Spiteful Baseball Bat of Death» with is basically a Baseball bat with a plus +1 damage modifier.

You'll get a cricket bat, yo - yo, a sort of Nerf gun and other goodies as you take on the game's six nicely - sized dungeons and a somewhat dangerous overworld packed with local wildlife out to gnaw or peck you to death.

The video then pans down on the sidewalk of the city where a man is on his knees, and then from behind another man begins to beat him to death with a bat.

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.

Brock Fenton, an expert in the behaviour and ecology of bats and professor in Western University's department of biology, said the bat deaths are a concern.

On the issue of bird / bat deaths: no doubt this is an issue... and one that the industry working on.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources has set 10 bat deaths per turbine as the threshold at which the mortalities are considered significant and warrant action.

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.

In addition to White Nose Syndrome, deaths connected to collisions with wind turbines are now the leading cause of multiple mortality events in bats (O'Shea et al., 2016).

* 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.

You certainly will: all of it, at least on the first three pages, concerns bird and bat deaths; most are saying that the claims of wind power opponents about these are grossly exaggerated.

Until recently, there were three main issues regarding the possible downsides of wind power: bird and bat deaths, cost, and disrupting the appearance of natural landscapes.

Since the implementation of wind farms in the 1970s, opponents say that bird and bat deaths, as well as noise pollution, environmental damage and poor aesthetics are not worth the potential benefits.

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On Friday, a Montana state judge refused to throw out a recent jury verdict that found the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats was liable in the amount of $ 850,000 for the 2003 death of a baseball player during a game in Helena.