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> we only kill birds! Bats too. They don't even need to hit the bats to kill them. The difference in air pressure around the blades is enough to rupture bat lu

> we only kill birds! Bats too. They don't even need to hit the bats to kill them. The difference in air pressure around the blades is enough to rupture bat lungs: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14593-wind-turbines-make-bat-lungs-explode/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14593-wind-turbines-m... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-killings-by-wind-energy-turbines-continue/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-killings-by-w...

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Which is interesting, but non-windturbine power is also responsible for mass bat deaths because the heat got too high https://www.nrdc.org/stories/heat-wave-australia-killed-23000-spectacled-flying-foxes#:~:text=A%202014%20heat%20wave%20in,35%2C%20have%20occurred%20since%201994 https://www.nrdc.org/stories/heat-wave-australia-killed-2300....