Learn How Wind Turbines Affect Wildlife
Utilities managers use wind tunnels to test wind turbines used to generate electricity. Wind tunnels help make the turbines and their blades more efficient, effective and durable, so they can withstand constant, powerful gusts. But wind tunnels also help engineers determine wind farm layouts and ...
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Power lines and wind turbines, while essential components of modern infrastructure, are deadly obstacles for birds. Collisions with these structures arecommon and contribute to substantial migratory birdmortality every year. The Role of Pesticides and Pollution Pesticides and other pollutants also impact m...
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Vertical-axis wind turbines (left: Darrieus turbine) In a VAWT, the shaft is mounted on a vertical axis, perpendicular to the ground. VAWTs are always aligned with the wind, unlike their horizontal-axis counterparts, so there's no adjustment necessary when the wind direction changes; but a ...
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