Wind turbines kill between 10,000 and 100,000birds each year in the UK. Interestingly, painting one of the blades of a wind turbine blackcan reduce bird deaths by 70 per cent. Snails have teeth. Between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise.They aren’t like ours, though, so don’...
Wind Power Is Very Important to Spain Interesting fact of Spain: the wind power The next fun fact about Spain is that this country is an early adopter of wind-based power technology. They built many wind turbines years ago and have made excellent use of this power source ever since. The ...
Usually provided by diesel powered generators at each base, but increasingly stations are installing wind turbines to generate supplementary electricity. This makes sense as Antarctica is the windiest place on earth, but poses a problem in case the strong winds damage the wind turbines. Every ...
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(Europe, UK, U.S., Canada, Australia) have been pushing wind and solar for a couple of decades, with tens of billions of dollars of various subsidies and tax breaks. There are now wind turbines and solar panels all over the place. Simultaneously the same countries have shutt...