Seabirds deliberately avoid wind turbine rotor blades offshore, new study finds. During two years of monitoring using cameras and radar, not a single bird was recorded colliding with a rotor blade.

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The risk of birds colliding with wind turbine blades is sometimes used as an argument against the use of wind power.   “The interesting thing about the combination of the two is that we were always able to know where each bird was, which is important when you want to understand what a bird is doing, and where in a wind farm,” explains Skov. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation

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