Wind Turbines Are Killing Bats with No Visible Wounds, Bursting Their Lungs From the Inside with Pressure Waves Alone

Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat’s lungs without the blade ever touc

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Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat's lungs without the blade ever touching it

The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead bats without a mark on them. A bird found beneath a turbine usually looks like what happened to it. Broken wings, blunt trauma, the signature of a collision with a blade tip moving at highway speeds or faster. But at wind farms across North America, as bat fatalities piled up during the autumn migration, searchers kept finding a…

Wind turbines are killing bats with no visible wounds, bursting their lungs from the inside with pressure waves alone

The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead bats without a mark on them. A bird found beneath a turbine usually looks like what happened to it. Broken wings, blunt trauma, the signature of a collision with a blade tip moving at highway speeds or faster. But at wind farms across North America, as bat fatalities piled up during the autumn migration, searchers kept finding a…