Posted on 02/24/2015 5:44:40 AM PST by thackney
Solar farm sets 130 birds on FIRE: Extreme glow of power plant ignites creatures mid-air during tests
Around 130 birds have been injured near Tonopah, Nevada
- 'Streamers' caught alight while while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
- Experts think birds may have been attracted by glow of the farm's tower
- Experts have previously claimed that a California solar array part owned by Google is killing nearly 30,000 birds per year
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 farms tower, but the projects 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 projects 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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#GreenEnergyKills
Looks like a cool target. Now to find a C-I-C to take them out.
Sell the stupid thing to ISIS.
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Is there any youtube video of this? This is almost as funny as them training rats to check for mines in a minefield- I suggested they put a number on each rat and take bets!
I’d watch that.
Air drop some chickens over this thing and I’ll wait below with a bucket and side dishes.
Where can I get one of those? I love duck hunting and just imagine how my shooting would improve, not to mention the bag limit increases I would enjoy. (sarc)
Don’t forget, odumbo is still pushing solar power and pumping millions of our tax dollars in support. How is having more solar “accidents” like the article describes sitting with the enviro’s, PETA, etc.? Where is the outcry?
They aren’t being covered with evil oil or breathing coal dust so it’s ok.
Pray America is waking
Well, I guess the staff doesn’t have to order in for lunch!
AND it costs more energy to maintain and install these silly installations than we get out of them.
Typical liberal ‘Gruber’ intelligence... all fluff and attitude - zero substance.
They need windmills next to the solar farms, they way they could chop and cook the birds in one step.
The environmentals are like the anti-King Midas. Rather than gold, everything they touch is turned to crap.
Why do we (Americans) listen to these hypocritical destructive idiots?
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. Saul Alinski
This is why it's a fundamental mistake to argue issues with dedicated leftists. They don't care about the issues they say they care about, they only care about power.
Autocorrect!!!
So true. Good post.
Now that one is not true.
Yes.
>> it’s a fundamental mistake to argue issues with dedicated leftists. They don’t care about the issues they say they care about, they only care about power. [ and money ]
Wouldn’t that type of temperatures be the cause “man-made cause of global warming”?
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