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The Science Is Clear: Offshore Wind Isn’t What’s Killing Whales (www.scientificamerican.com)

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"Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all"

"Conducting necropsies on beached whales to pin down a cause of death is made difficult by the animals’ layer of blubber and by the fact that organs can literally cook inside a stranded whale. But it is starkly clear that human activity—in the form of ships that hit whales or fishing gear that wraps around them—is often to blame."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Vibrations that low would make the turbine unstable, the resonant frequency of the structure would be much higher. The control system would also attenuate any resonant frequencies that low.