Bat Vegomatics - Tales of the Deadly Wind Turbine...

Who knows - maybe John F Kennedy Jr. was right.

The renowned water cleanup activist was leading the charge against a wind farm in the ocean offshore of his family estate in Martha's Vineyard based on the fact the turbines were unsightly.

But according to the Washington Post (registration is free), not only are wind turbines apparently ugly, but they're murdering hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent bats.

Jessica Kerns thought her survey of new power-generating wind turbines on a mountaintop in West Virginia would yield the standard result: a smattering of dead birds that were whacked by the whirring blades.

But the University of Maryland doctoral student turned up something unexpected amid the trees and rolling ridges of Backbone Mountain: hundreds of bat carcasses, some with battered wings and bloodied faces. "It was really a shock," Kerns said.