Name: Oregon State University studying how to prevent birds from flying into wind turbines
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Oregon State University studying how to prevent birds from flying into wind turbines

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Anywhere from 140,000 to 679,000 birds are killed by wind turbine blades in the U.S. each year, a MIT report says. An OSU team is working to solve that by studying whether painting just one blade black per turbine can cut down on those deaths. Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/oregon-researchers-stopping-birds-from-flying-into-wind-turbines/283-7e5fe5c6-d143-46ff-b6ce-dfb044aa5584 Watch more The Story videos: http://bit.ly/watchTheStory Follow The Story on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thestorykgw

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environment local news science tech the-story wind energy wind turbine renewable energy wind turbine bird strikes wind turbine bird deaths bird killed by wind turbine bird safe wind turbine

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