[HN Gopher] Insect fatalities at wind turbines as biodiversity s...
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       Insect fatalities at wind turbines as biodiversity sinks
        
       Author : vixen99
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-10-17 18:17 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
        
       | wishawa wrote:
       | Up close, turbines generate lots of noise, unnatural air
       | currents, and EM field. Seems like an ideal situation for natural
       | selection.
        
       | tinus_hn wrote:
       | If the problem is insects flying against the turbine mast I
       | wonder how many insects are 'killed' by a tree every year.
        
       | aeternum wrote:
       | How does this compare with the number of insects killed by cars
       | on the highway?
       | 
       | It seems foolish to focus research on wind turbines when cars
       | kill many orders of magnitude more. Why not research how to
       | reduce car-insect-fatalities?
        
       | yuppie_scum wrote:
       | Better them than us
        
         | stemlord wrote:
         | More like them then us
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker
         | News? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we're
         | trying for a different sort of discussion here.
         | 
         | If you wouldn't mind reviewing
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the
         | intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
        
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