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		<title>Duke Energy Florida modifying power transmission lines to protect birds</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Duke Energy Florida Inc. hopes to make its power lines friendlier to birds. The company is undertaking a pilot program featuring redesigned electric transmission lines deemed less likely to zap our fine feathered friends into oblivion. That will entail replacing horizontal lines with vertical or stacked models, and replacing some poles to achieve better spacing. &#8220;The redesigned elements will help prevent birds from getting in between lines and from perching and building nests on electrical lines and poles,&#8221; Duke said in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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