{"id":9383,"date":"2014-08-06T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=9383"},"modified":"2015-10-08T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T13:22:11","slug":"bats-dying-from-the-bends-due-to-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=9383","title":{"rendered":"Bats dying from the Bends due to Wind Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14059\" src=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/bats-dying-from-the-bends-due-to-wind-turbines.jpg\" alt=\"bats-dying-from-the-bends-due-to-wind-turbines\" width=\"650\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/bats-dying-from-the-bends-due-to-wind-turbines.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/bats-dying-from-the-bends-due-to-wind-turbines-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 85vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sadly, bats are one of the animals most frequently found dead near wind turbines. New research into the cause of death has discovered that it is not just flying into the massive blades that kills the animals, as conservationists have previously thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The instant huge change in air flow pressure caused by the propellers movement creates problems akin to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bends\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that divers receive if the pressure change is too great on surfacing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind_turbines.jpg\" alt=\"Wind turbines are killing bats\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>Researchers at Queens University, Belfast said pressure changes caused by the revolving turbine blades leads to this phenomena and named the affect \u00e2\u20ac\u0153barotrauma\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some think it should be named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153batotrauma\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the sudden pressure change tends to affect bats disproportionately to other birds. Bats are, of course, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153flying mice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and mammals rather than birds, so perhaps that physiological difference makes them more susceptible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bats in the UK are a protected species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and Dr Richard Holland has recommended that wind turbines be turned off in areas of high migration when the bats are on the move. With turbines already notoriously inefficient, this is unlikely to be welcomed by energy companies and pro-turbine stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The team at Queen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s University Belfast also established that migratory bats use polarised light to navigate once above about 50m altitude on long journeys and set their internal navigation compasses in accordance with polarised light at Sunset.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"www.PropertySurveying.co.uk\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">www.PropertySurveying.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LB \/ SRJ \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a007.14<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, bats are one of the animals most frequently found dead near wind turbines. New research into the cause of death has discovered that it is not just flying into the massive blades that kills the animals, as conservationists have previously thought. 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