New pile-driving technologies promise to tame the unruly noise of installing shallow-water windfarms.
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Category: Windfarms
Is offshore wind killing whales?
Environmental energy flux density increasing exponentially
(Photo by David Kadlubowski) A number of our recent blogs have been orbiting around bird and whale energy perception, and how energy sources we impose on their habitats may compromise their environmental adaptations. This inquiry has ventured outside of what…
Negative impacts of negative pressure
Organisms are built to handle compression – positive pressure. But decompression. or “negative barotrauma,” is another matter.
Birds “hear” the weather.
Pigeons Hear Where They Are!
It has been long known that homing pigeons and probably many other migratory birds can hear “infrasound” – sounds at frequencies below human ability to discriminate as pitch. This is how they figure out where they are!
Were New Jersey strandings associated with offshore wind surveys?
Cluster of whale strandings concurrent with offshore wind surveys raises some difficult issues.
What are we asking for?
When talking about de-carbonizing our future, “Responsible Use of Energy” should be in the first paragraph – before we whittle away at what constitutes ‘responsible’ ways of generating that energy.
Off to ‘polish the marble’ in DC
While the trumpets and banner-waving around the IRA (“Build Back Better Lite”) highlights all sorts of climate actions and infrastructure support for clean energy systems, buried in the bowels of the bill are a few short clauses that entirely destroy the climate effectiveness of the effort…
Windfarm noise above the waterline.
Migrating birds need to sense “infrasonic” energy as a synchronized group, but also collectively for navigation. Windfarms may interfere with this sense.