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- WaterDragon, on 11/01/2009, -0/+9And why should we care about bats? Well, for one thing, a bat can eat about ten thousand mosquitoes in one night.
(But then, humans use the bat-droppings to make gunpowder, to blow people up. So then, bats seem to be a kind of 'mosquito amplifier', turning a mild nuisance into a full-blown threat.
Perhaps the real threat is humans who try to 'weaponize' everything they find in nature.) - rizzo2008, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4I agree with the cave thing but we need wind turbines...we can't expect to have clean energy and then greatly restrict it in the regions of the US (the Great Plains) where it has the greatest potential to be useful.
- auximenes, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3I remember a friend of mine talking about this last year.
- iceperson, on 11/01/2009, -0/+31 million deaths a year from malaria is more than a small nuisence.
- WaterDragon, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2I would expect that between our wind turbines and the bats, we could put some thing like chicken- wire-mesh, to separate the two...or hasn't anybody thought of that yet?
- georgemandis, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2I was half expecting to see a link to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloN1RPs4n0 - djdisconess, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2I believe it would be expensive (on top of the already expensive turbine), ugly, require LOTS of maintenance (rust, birds, weather), and possibly even reduce turbine efficiency. Though more likely the wire would eventually move and hit the blades, causing more damage than the bats would be worth (sorry bats!).
- professorfurley, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1batflu. watch out.
- gkiltz, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1Oh *****!
It sure sucks to be a bat!
Hopefully enough bats will survive that the insect population can be kept under control. - nigradamus, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1Malaria mostly affects poor black people, so it's OK.
You could even call it useful population control! - rizzo2008, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1we don't use bat dung to make gunpowder anymore
- WaterDragon, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1...but it still CAN be used for that, being a good source of potassium nitrate, or perhaps sodium nitrate -- I can't recall which.
Here I am defending a light comment I made in jest! - WaterDragon, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1I was thinking that it would NOT be expensive to add a simple cage of coarse wire mesh on a simple aluminum frame, around the turbines -- and it would protect the expensive turbines, as well as the bats and birds.
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