Posted on 09/02/2016 1:26:32 PM PDT by bananaman22
Some say that the casualty numbers are overhyped. Other say it is a serious problem. But at the Ivanpah Solar Plant in Nevada, birds are bursting into flames. The bizarre occurrences happen when the bird’s flight paths take them into the ultra-concentrated beams of sunlight produced by the panels at the plant.
On spec, the plant seems like the very ideal of energy production for the future: three gleaming towers, forty stories in height capturing the energy from the sunlight reflected by five acres of massive mirrors. All told, the plant generates some 390 megawatts of power from its turbines. The Tomorrowland-esque scene, however, is marred by the sight of passing birds being set alight from the rays generated by the plant, leaving little more than a scant trail of white smoke.
Workers at the plant have dubbed the avian casualties “streamers.” According to federal biologists, approximately 6,000 birds die each year, either from collisions or from being set aflame, as they hunt for insects around the plant.
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And the liberal animal rights/people depopulators are raising holy hell about this where, exactly?
At the Libtard Hypocrite coffee bar?
Pre-cooked “road” kill, what will environmentalists think of next?
If I pluck a feather from a road kill eagle I commit a felony. I feel a great disconnect here.
If they had asked, I would have told them this was going to happen.
There’s a franchise chain possibility in there, somewhere.
I’d like to see some video evidence for fun...ummm, I mean confirmation.
And yet, feral cats kill nearly a billion birds every year in the US alone.
Solar power plants are small potatoes.
Wind turbines don’t shutdown at night and chop up bats as well as birds.
--last news I saw on this fiasco, it was only producing 25-50% of anticipated power and California was about to punish it for using too much natural gas in relation to power produced---
I used to fly regularly into Las Vegas.
There are many acres of empty rooftops in town, plus many covered parking lots, plus many parking lots that could be covered.
Perfect win-win opportunity for the residents.
But they had to build this monstrosity instead, to satisfy Obama-Reid.
Where are ABC-CBS-CNN-PBS on this?
Easy solution. Make them cover the reflectors during the day.
How about putting up the multistory tall netting that mega golf driving ranges put up to keep golf balls from leaving the premises?
Good thing, too. Another billion birds, and we'd probably all be dead from histoplasmosis.
Please,don't give those mealy mouthed bastards any ideas.
It’s okay when liberals mindlessly slaughter wildlife.
15 avian lives extinguished each day. At their peaks of their lives, they soar proudly through the sunny Nevada sky, their highly evolved bird eyes scanning the beautiful desolate terrain...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
Their lives are extinguished in an instant...
Why aren’t the liberals up in arms about it? Because those poor murdered birds are only so many eggs to be broken in the making of a Gaia-Worshiping Solar Farm Omelette.
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