Our Goal Our goal is to decrease the mortality rate of bats being killed by green-energy wind turbines. Wind turbines are killing bats. The bats can´t see the blades of the turbine so they think its a big tree. Also insects are attracted to the wind turbines for unknown reasons. Insectivore bats main food source are insects (insect being the root word of insect-ivore) therefore they are attracted to the wind turbines where they get killed.
Our solution is to make a bat drone shield. The Bat Drone Shield would be a deterrent system designed to keep bats away from wind turbines. It would consist of one drone for each 3 turbines. The drones would have a speaker that would emit the sound of the natural predator of the bat that was indigenous to that area. The drones would be charged on an induction pad and would be deployed at twilight and when the winds were between 4-7 m/s. The drones would be deployed when bats were detected using the bat acoustic detectors. The sound of the natural predator would be set at the actual frequency of the predator, so as to not be annoying to humans who might live in the area. |