Onderzoeksbevinding windenergie: één turbineblad zwart schilderen kan vogelsterfte met 70% reduceren
26 August 2020
13:10
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Changing one blade to a darker color like black would make wind turbines much more visible. In 2013, at the Smøla wind farm, researchers selected four turbines to be in a control group and another four to be in a test group. Each one of the test group turbines had a single blade painted black.
In the three years that followed, the researchers tracked bird deaths and found only six birds dead due to striking the test group’s turbine blades. However, the control group registered a whopping 18 bird deaths. This represents a 71.9% reduction in the annual fatality rate for the test group.
