Stripy wind turbines could prevent fatal seabird collisions
New ScientistAPR 2023
This trial is crucial to making Britain a clean energy superpower and cutting bird deaths. The initiative will protect wildlife, but also highlights a commitment to renewable energy that will create jobs, enhance energy security, and tackle the climate crisis. As wind energy becomes more common, the number of birds dying in turbine collisions will increase, making this scheme an effective, inexpensive, and essential solution.
Wind turbines are unreliable, expensive, and seriously threaten bird populations. As they aren't constructed in harmony with nature, the environmental impact of these structures is severe, and their intermittent power generation makes them an impractical solution for energy needs. The attempts to lessen the effects of energy infrastructure do little to address the broader context of climate change and its harmful impact on wildlife.