#windturbines — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: A barn #owl can catch a #mouse in a completely dark room using only its sense of #hearing.

The secret lies in its #feathers – reflective facial disc feathers focus #sound into asymmetrically placed #ears, while serrated wing feathers muffle noise mid-flight. Engineers at #Siemens are now mimicking owl feathers to make quieter #windturbines.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-secret-to-a-barn-owls-deadly-night-hunting-is-hidden-in-its-feathers/

#barnowl #owls #predator #hunting #biomimicry #engineering #biology #evolution #ornithology

IN TASMANIA…
A wind turbine on an apple orchard at Lucaston, in the Huon Valley, takes a welcome break after the wind drops.

Many orchardists in the region and elsewhere in the island state went into cattle when apple exports to the UK went into decline when that country joined the European Common Market in the 1970s. Whole fields of apple trees were uprooted.

Apples remain an important crop in the Huon, something you appreciate when you bite into one of the locally grown fruit. And, of course, apple farms need electrical energy, and that is where this resting wind turbine comes into the picture.

#tasmania #huonvalley #windturbines #electricity #energy #farming #agriculture #appleorchard