SomeGuy58439

• Are wind turbines like this or like this also hazardous to bat populations or is that largely a problem with the more "conventional" ones?

• Solar panels seem to kill some birds - are there any risk to bats from these as well? (My impression is that bats fly only at night, so no? Or might there be problems around sunset / dawn?)

• If you had a large amount of money to invest in improving the power grid, how would you invest it? (Beyond, I'm assuming, funding your own research).

Two more questions if you're still around to answer:

1. How high do bats typically fly? Noticed that that second wind turbine I'd linked is called the Buoyant Air Turbine which is shorted to the BAT and seemed kind of amusing in context here. It's flight height was listed as around 1000 feet. How high would you need to fly a wind generator to negate negative impacts on bat populations?

2. Do you think there's too much of a distinction made between technologies like wind generation and what pops up in the media as this horrifying idea of "geoengineering"? I'm personally interested in further exploration of fertilizing the oceans which certainly has some potential downsides, but here we're also talking about some of the drawbacks of wind generation. Do you think the differing level of backlash these ideas seem to receive is warranted?