<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message from Gary Kelsberg:</div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""> Hi all,<div class="">I hadn't heard of this, but a Norwegian study found an inexpensive and effective way to reduce bird mortality from wind turbine blade strikes by painting one blade black (leaving the other blades white). Apparently, the contrasting color patterns make the whirling blades more visible to birds in flight.</div><div class="">Gary</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Seattle Times' article, "Oregon researchers painting wind turbine blades to cut bird deaths", <br class=""><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/oregon-researchers-painting-wind-turbine-blades-to-cut-bird-deaths/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1" class="">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/oregon-researchers-painting-wind-turbine-blades-to-cut-bird-deaths/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">What a good idea, and I hope they can keep it up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle</div></div></body></html>