Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 177: "All The Strangest Questions About Wind Power's Health And Safety"
This is the bonus show for Episode 177! (Windmills)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of wind power stations, and all the strangest questions about their health and safety impact on birds, bats, whales, humans, and all life on Earth.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
An Israeli wind project draws scrutiny on turbines and people’s health (Popular Science)
Disadvantages of Wind Energy: Do Wind Turbines Affect Health? (HowStuffWorks)
Ask MIT Climate: Do wind turbines kill birds? (MIT Climate Portal)
How are bats affected by wind turbines? (U.S. Geological Survey)
Dutch Windmill Blades to Spin Slower to Save Birds During Migration (Bloomberg)
Wind energy in Australia is killing thousands of bats, but there is a solution (Cosmos Magazine)
What Is White-nose Syndrome? (U.S. National Park Service)
Giant Wind Turbines Keep Mysteriously Falling Over. This Shouldn't Be (Popular Mechanics)
In Norway, Indigenous Sami protest outside prime minister’s office against wind farm (The Associated Press)
TikTok by Jason Pargin, about guy flipping and catching a sheet cake
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