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What about Zebra stripes. I remember that thy keep the flies away.

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• brk 3y ago
  How long until they are covered in LED strips that are programmed to light up with advertisements while the blades are spinning? I'm only partially joking, unfortunately.
• westurner 3y ago
  What about painting eyes on wind turbines to avert birds? /? eyes on things at the airport birds https://www.google.com/search?q=eyes+on+things+at+the+airport+birds https://www.google.com/search?q=eyes+on+things+at+the+airpor... "Wide-eyed glare scares raptors: From laboratory evidence to applied management" (2018) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0204802 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... Raptors (birds) > Common names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_prey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_prey
  • westurner 3y ago
    Perhaps drones can save birds? IIRC Festo has some of the longer flight times with their animal-inspired drones? Would a covered charging dock/cradle for an autonomous or semi-autonomous bird-saving system would save [wind turbine] owners money? "Never landing drone: Autonomous soaring of a unmanned aerial vehicle in front of a moving obstacle” (2023) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17568293211060500 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17568293211060... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=11398876876015661501&as_sdt=5,47&sciodt=0,47&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1139887687601566150... "Orographic"; Orographic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orography