Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades | Ars Technica - 0 views
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Bill Fulkerson on 25 Aug 20Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that are killed each year by wind turbines. According to a study conducted at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla, changing the color of a single blade on a turbine from white to black resulted in a 70-percent drop in the number of bird deaths.