Offshore wind farms are one of the most promising alternative energy sources ever invented. They also have a pretty pressing downside: they kill lots of birds. New research from the Norwegian ...
A simple coat of black paint on the white blade of a wind turbine could save countless birds from flying into the machines and to their deaths each year. It’s working in Norway, and now researchers ...
Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Approximately 140,000 to 500,000 birds ...
Jethro George Gauld receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council via the NEXUSS CDT. He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Managers ...
Black is not only beautiful, but it may save lives when it comes to wind energy. Hundreds of thousands of birds and bats, maybe millions, are killed each year by the world’s utility-scale wind turbine ...
A turbine with one blade painted black at a wind farm near Glenrock, Wyoming. Courtesy of Jona Whitesides, Pacificorp This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories ...
A new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution shows that painting one blade on a wind turbine black may reduce bird deaths at wind farms by up to 70%. For a long time, organizations, such ...
A simple coat of black paint on the white blade of a wind turbine could save countless birds from flying into the machines and to their deaths each year. It’s working in Norway, and now researchers ...
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