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Brown crabs mesmerised by underwater power cables for renewable energy sources, study finds
Sky News ^
| 10 October 2021
| Alexa Phillips, news reporter
Posted on 10/11/2021 12:55:11 AM PDT by blueplum
Offshore wind farms requiring extensive underwater cabling are installed and planned around Scotland's coast, and researchers said they could destabilise the nation's brown crab population if precautions are not taken.
Brown crabs are mesmerised by underwater power cables for renewable energy sources, scientists have found.
The cables emit an electromagnetic field which causes them to sit still...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: animalbehavior; crabs; electromechanics; environment; globalwarminghoax; green; greennewdeal; magneticfields; scotland; scotlandyet
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oh dear!
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posted on
10/11/2021 12:55:11 AM PDT
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
Mollusks and Lobsters and Crabs!
To: one guy in new jersey
To: blueplum
Like leftists and the legacy media.
To: blueplum
Sounds like something new for Greenie extremists to use in the next offshore wind / solar farm siting fight.
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posted on
10/11/2021 1:55:58 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: blueplum
What’s an environmentalist and leftist to do with this conundrum. Bet they side with wind farm, poor crabs
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posted on
10/11/2021 2:41:39 AM PDT
by
pangaea6
To: blueplum
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posted on
10/11/2021 2:57:23 AM PDT
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: blueplum
Probably going to create mutant crazed human killing crabs.
To: blueplum
Too bad it doesn’t work on white sharks.
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posted on
10/11/2021 3:56:15 AM PDT
by
Track9
(Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
To: blueplum
They act just like the 2 or 3 liberals at a Biden news conference.
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posted on
10/11/2021 4:16:53 AM PDT
by
maddog55
(The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: pangaea6
You don’t think they will stop at oil, coal and nuclear do you. Their target is capitalism and use these as targets. Wind and solar will be next.
11
posted on
10/11/2021 5:28:00 AM PDT
by
bray
(Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
To: blueplum
Anyone fish near an offshore oil platform? 😏🐟🐡
12
posted on
10/11/2021 6:54:27 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Track9
***Too bad it doesn’t work on white sharks.***
Ever see JAWS II? A movie in which you end up rooting for the shark to eat those obnoxious teens.
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posted on
10/11/2021 7:42:11 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? )
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
“ Ever see JAWS II? A movie in which you end up rooting for the shark to eat those obnoxious teens.”
LOL…
I think that’s how many feel about the swimmers at Cape Cod beaches.
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posted on
10/11/2021 7:46:39 AM PDT
by
Track9
(Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
To: blueplum
May not be electromagnetic field which causes them to sit still but the heat.
After all the liberal panic about the Alaskan oil pipe line they found out the elk and others gathered kept near it for the warmth the death by freezing dropped.
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:02:30 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: blueplum
—”Brown crabs?”
I always heard blue ointment did the trick?
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:46:58 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: blueplum
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posted on
10/11/2021 9:54:13 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
—”Brown crabs?”
I always heard blue ointment did the trick?
= = =
COC
Crabs of Color
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posted on
10/11/2021 10:03:09 AM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
To: Scrambler Bob
—”Crabs of Color”
Just like the evolution of the peppered moth, natural selection never sleeps.
Very important in the days of old when it was lighter fluid and an ice pick.
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posted on
10/11/2021 11:51:38 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: blueplum
Brown Crab Lives Matter!! (Except when butter is applied)
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posted on
10/11/2021 12:38:52 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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