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Committee reviews fenestration tests suggesting ~30% visual transmittance reduces turtle disorientation; members await peer review
Summary
Industry testing discussed by the committee showed a preliminary significant reduction in hatchling disorientation at about 30% visual transmittance (VLT). Committee members said they will review peer-reviewed studies before recommending local code changes, and discussed incentives for voluntary adoption.
Committee members reviewed recent fenestration-industry test results that examine how window tint (visual transmittance, or VLT) affects hatchling sea-turtle disorientation.
Chad summarized correspondence from the fenestration industry and said initial tests with hatchling leatherbacks and loggerheads “preliminarily… appear that a point 3 tint is, and anything darker than that, is effective in reducing the disorientation of the turtles.”…
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