Environmentalists and the Undead Fight Over Bats

Is it worthwhile to push wind turbine power at the expense of bats that are chopped up?  How do real environmentalists and also vampires feel about this?  Let's talk about the famous Count Dracula.  Dracula has called for a worldwide protest against the killing of thousands of bats at wind farms in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. "Can't these Greenies even let the undead rest in peace?" the ancient leader was reported to have commented from an undisclosed location in Trans-Carpathia aka Transylvania.

During a six-week period last year, an estimated 1,764 and 2,900 bat fatalities were recorded at two wind farms in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The blades of the windmills don't have to touch the bats to kill them. The relative difference in air pressure produced by the turning blades causes the bats lungs to fill with blood, a condition known as barotrauma. All those windmills thrashing about in the ice and snow have me worried in any case.  Something must be getting chopped up in that blender.

The flap among the bats is expected to cause significant problems at Buckingham Palace in London, UK, where Queen Elizabeth II is known to be a fond admirer of vampire bats. However, rumors that she sleeps with a stuffed animal bat close to her pillow may be exaggerated. That might just be Prince Phillip.