[peteypupperdoo]

There’s a solar farm in California, the Mojave Desert that fries about 6000 birds a year. Is the one in Nevada similar? I don’t know. I would imagine those panels get hot hot hot.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

From Science-Alert: “A >> rare and unusual << type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally killing up to 6,000 birds every year”

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[TangoLimaSierra]

There’s a solar farm in California, the Mojave Desert that fries about 6000 birds a year. Is the one in Nevada similar? I don’t know. I would imagine those panels get hot hot hot.

The farm in Cali uses mirrors to reflect and concentrate a beam to the top of a tower to heat oil. If a bird flies into the beams where they are concentrated it will fry them.

The ones that use panels like this one can't hurt a bird unless it runs headlong into it at full speed.

[spokeshave]

There’s a solar farm in California, the Mojave Desert that fries about 6000 birds a year.

Silly birds think its a lake...and get fried trying to land on it,

What spans 1,600 hectares, cost $2.2 billion to build, and potentially fries hundreds of thousands of birds per year?

The new BrightSource solar power plant in California's Mojave Dessert. The plant, which uses some 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors to focus sunlight on three boiler towers, also acts as a death ray, instantly igniting and killing any wildlife that happen to fly through the intense beam of light. Wildlife officials are concerned that this concentrated solar power plant, and others like it, could turn into “mega-trap” that decimates the ecosystem -- first attracting insects, and then attracting birds that eat insects. BrightSource, in the mean time, is forging ahead with an even larger solar power plant that officials say could kill four times as many birds. Won't somebody stop these not-so-green nature-killing maniacs?

There’s a solar farm in California, the Mojave Desert that fries about 6000 birds a year.