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FW: [BIRDCHAT] Effects of Wind Turbines

To: "'Peter Shute'" <>, "'Evan Beaver'" <>
Subject: FW: [BIRDCHAT] Effects of Wind Turbines
From: "Gregory Little" <>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:48:46 +1000
Peter

Would we not all then be copping microwaves. Maybe that is what's wrong
with some of us.

Greg Little

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shute  
Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 2:44 PM
To: Evan Beaver; Gregory Little
Cc: 
Subject: FW: [BIRDCHAT] Effects of Wind Turbines

 wrote on Thursday, 17 May 2007 2:39
PM:

> Luckily for the bats they operate at quite different frequencies:
> 
> Radar 3MHz-110GHz
> 
> Bats Hearing 14KHz (humans stop at about 20KHz) through to 100KHz
> 
> Do any birds use Echolocation or have ridiculously high frequency
> hearing? 

Even if they do, surely it has nothing to do with their ability to
detect radar.  I would have thought that any effect on them might be
just making them uncomfortable by cooking them a bit with microwaves.

Peter Shute 

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