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In the list of ways to go, after lungs explode is certainly the gnarlier to the side. Too bad for bats in local treehugging, however, because this is what is happening to them, because of a rather serious mistake with their terrible echolcation systems junction with the seemingly benign forces Bernoulli principle set in motion the turbines 'enormous spinning blades. Ouch all around.

What happens is the bats' echolocation internal, which tracks movement, attracts blade of wind turbines, which presents another problem fairly obvious. But a University of Calgary researcher puzzled of bats dying off in large numbers around wind farms in southern Alberta has discovered that those who do not get to reduce the blades (surprisingly only 50%) are actually dying of lung exploded Or barotrauma; areas of low pressure around the spinning rotors, as explained by our friend Bernoulli, causing the bats' small air sacs to burst. Even those who do get knocked out of the sky with blades have their lungs popped above-bats of the 188 deaths in the study, 90% had barotrauma as the cause of death.

I think this will remain one of these problems without an immediate solution. Hopefully, the bats will evolve to understand that the massive spinning turbine blades that are not insectoid a tasty meal. [New Scientist, photo: Zeusandhera]

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