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Today I learned why wind farms paint one turbine blade black

You'd think that painting a single turbine blade black is a pretty inexpensive fix for accidental bird deaths. It sounds almost too good to be true, which perhaps it is.

At the Smøla wind farm in Norway, every wind turbine had one of its blade painted black for an extended science experiment back in August 2013. Over the next three years, the number of bird carcasses found fell by 70%.

However, similar experiments in the Netherlands did not yield positive results, because apparently this fix depends heavily on the local bird species and population size.

Too many dead birds

There are a total of 68 turbines at the Smøla wind power plant, an archipelago off the coast of Central Norway. Researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research compared four regular turbines with four neighboring ones that had one blade painted black for this experiment.

They regularly counted the number...

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