Mansion owners who for years have fought the installation of wind farms off Martha’s Vineyard (of course they’re all for renewable energy, as President Obama would wish them to be, but that equipment is just too unsightly) have some new allies in their battle to maintain their unobstructed water views–exploding bats. It seems that air pressure from the giant windmills causes the bats’ lungs to explode when they get too close–this is known as “barotrauma,” according to the Washington Times, though I don’t see why they don’t just go ahead and call it “batotrauma” –and bats, the preferred insecticide of green-living people everywhere, are getting too close because the insects they feed on are attracted to the windmills at night when the turbines are operating and . . . well . . . splat! It’s a microcosmic ecological dilemma wrapped in a climatic environmental paradox worthy of Toho Studios.
