I recently viewed an article about how wind turbines were killing bats. Renewable energy is a great way to help the environment, but harm sometimes comes with it. Of course, non-renewable energy is very harmful, and renewable energy is a good way to solve the problems of pollution, and still provide energy. But what is better, wind power, or the bats. Bats were attracted to the wind turbines because they resembled trees and many bats have dies because of this, hundreds of thousands have. I also have heard about hydroelectric dams killing fish. Since non-renewable energy destroys the ozone, and renewable can kill animals, which one does every one think is better? I think renewable energy is the best type of energy to use, we could save these bats by protecting them from the wind turbines. I see it as the best option, but I am curious as to what other people think. Here is the article-http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfi … Dw-VvldWSo

Since wind turbines are good for the environment, I think we could find a way to keep bats away from them by either painting them a bright, non tree color, or by putting some sort of mesh fence around it. I do agree that saving our bats is very important so if wind turbines don't work out, then we'll have to try to use a different environmentally friendly renewable energy source.

This is really interesting!  Meghan's suggestion about somehow keeping the bats from the wind turbines was a good idea.  I am curious, does renewable energy harm any other animals besides bats and fish?  How does non-renewable energy affect humans?

Painting the turbines non-organic colors is a great idea. If this was done, we would need to know all the other animals that could get caught in the turbines and the general appearance of the area. The color of the turbines in an area could be based on the specific animals living there and the most typical colors there. Since the animals could be accustomed to certain non-organic colors from nearby man-made objects, animals in one area may react differently to a certain color than the animals in another area. Once we find that out, we could choose a color that would be the most unnatural color used in that area that can ward off any animals. This article says that birds are also affected in addition to bats http://www.wind-watch.org/publication/n … ldlife.pdf

In doing this, we would have to think about all the animals that would be affected, but I think there is defiantly a solution to this problem.