The Topaz Solar Farm (shown) has gone online in California's Carrizo Plain.
How will the birds be directed away from this furnace/assured death.
Posted on 02/23/2015 2:51:27 PM PST by matt04
More than 100 birds have been injured during testing of a new solar power farm.
Biologists say 130 birds caught fire mid-air while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project near Tonopah, Nevada.
Experts believe the birds may have been attracted by the glow of the farm’s tower, but the project’s owners, SolarReserve, say they have found a way to reduce the fatalities.
The solar project is close to being completion and is set to go launch next month.
Thousands of mirrors focus sunlight onto one central tower to melt salt inside it, which will in turn heat water so that steam will turn turbines to generate electricity.
At its peak, the project will produce 110 megawatts of electricity, which will be sold to NV Energy – a firm that powers the majority of homes in Nevada, Rewire reported.
In a test, one third of the project’s 10,000 mirrors were moved to focus sunlight at a point 1,200 feet above ground level – at approximately twice the height of its tower.
It took biologists just an hour and a half to notice the first of the ‘streamers’ – birds that catch fire and leave a trail of smoke in the air -when entering the field of solar energy.
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eXXXXtra Crispy..
damn.. they have really advanced the technologies, huh?
How many bids caught fire after flying over a nuclear or coal plant?
Just set up a KFC Franchise next door, and we’ll be good...
WOW!!
Break out the barbeque sauce!
.......................LOTS of it!
Nevada fried vulture. Yum!
Sadly more birds probably died because of habitat disruption caused by the building of the solar facility. Those things don’t exactly have a small footprint, ya’ know.
Any of them a pheasant or a duck?
Install some wind turbines and you got shredded, cooked poultry for the starving victims of the Baraqqi Depression!
OOPS!
The Topaz Solar Farm (shown) has gone online in California's Carrizo Plain.
How will the birds be directed away from this furnace/assured death.
At least a jet engine plucks them before they’re cooked.
These birds are not being killed. It’s not an oil company.
I bet some government funded research comes out showing that solar farms are completely safe for birds, but cows are bad for turtles.
Hell of a lot of effort just to melt salt and fry endangered species.
But gotta save the planet, right?
What about the desert tortoise?
“As G d as my witness, I thought turkeys could fry”
Now we know what is really causing global warming.
Have you seen the wind farms in the plains? They’re an environmental disaster that have gone unnoticed. Imagine the whole plains filled with these:http://www.geospectra.net/kite/beaumont/beaumont04.jpg
That’s what it’s like.
ROFL!!!!!!
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