Environmental Conservation Is Part Of The Energy Transition
An interview with Michael Krieger, Competence Centre for Nature Conservation and Energy Transition (KNE) in Berlin.
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Mowing Your Lawn? Skip One Week, But Not Two
Ecologist Susannah B. Lerman believes most homeowners fall into one of three groups when it comes to lawn care. Group #1 includes “lawn people,” who covet the perfect lawn and “spend thousands of dollars each year to have a lush, green, weed-free lawn,” she said. Group #2 is made up of “neighbors of lawn people,” who are clueless, but watch what their neighbors do with their lawns, and follow their lead. “They figure that they, too, should irrigate, fertilize and mow,” she said. Group #3 are those who just don’t care, and “do the minimum to keep the lawn alive,” she said. Which group are you in?
Researchers Develop Bird Detection & Deterrent System For Wind Turbines
Researchers from Oregon State University have developed and begun testing a bird detection and deterrent system for wind turbines that seeks to better analyze the impact of wind turbines on birds and begin protecting them in the process.
Wind Power Results In Very Few Bird Deaths Overall
Wind power critics sometimes try to say that this form of clean, renewable energy is bogus because a number of bird deaths result each year from collisions with wind turbines and towers. What they fail to mention is the context, so they leave out certain very key facts. The number of birds killed by wind turbines is relatively tiny.
Decades-Long Research Project Shows Golden Eagles Thriving At Scottish Wind Farms
The findings of a twenty year-long research project has revealed that golden eagles in proximity to the Beinn an Tuirc windfarm in Scotland are thriving, throwing a spanner in the works for anyone who claims wind farms and wind turbines are inherently dangerous to birds. In 1997, during the planning process … [continued]
German Wind Turbines Killing Migratory Bats
A new study has determined that a significant number of bats are being killed by wind turbines in Germany — of which more than two-thirds of bats are in the process of migrating between their summer and winter habitats. A number of studies investigating the effect of wind turbines on … [continued]
99% Of Seabirds Avoid Collision With Offshore Wind Farms
The wind turbine has received some of the most heated and angry opposition any technology has had to endure in many years, and as we continue to study the effects of wind turbines and wind farms as a whole, we continue to discover that all of this negative attention has … [continued]
Painting Wind Turbines Purple Could Save Wildlife, Make Opponents Angrier
Two of the most repeated oppositions to wind turbines are their impact on wildlife and their supposed “ugliness” (which those of us who love the look of wind turbines don’t really understand). A new report has managed to solve one of these issues while simultaneously making the other issue worse. … [continued]
Coal Found Guilty In Case Of Energy Generation Versus Birds
U.S. News has investigated just how many birds are killed by different energy sources each year, and the figures do not look good for coal utilities. Over the years that renewable energy has developed into a mainstay of the Western energy grid there have been a number of attempts to … [continued]
U.S. Interior Department Revise Wind Development Regulations
The US Department of the Interior have revised regulations set up in 2009 to ensure the safety of federally protected eagles in the face of wind energy development. The Wildlife Society have said that 2012 saw 573,000 birds killed by wind farms, a small number when compared to the damage … [continued]
