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…
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