800 Degree Heat From Solar Mirrors Frying Birds Mid Air

Oilprice.com ^ | 11/07/2014 | Andy Tully

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There is growing evidence that birds flying in the vicinity of a solar thermal power project in California’s Mojave Desert are being injured and even killed either by the solar heat that’s focused with mirrors on its three energy-collecting towers, or by colliding with the mirrors themselves.

Yet a task force set up to investigate the problem at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) has brushed aside several recommendations by the forensics laboratory of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), according to the minutes of a meeting on the subject obtained by the Los Angeles public television station KCET...

[blueplum]

based on the observation of a large bird that had caught fire above ISEGS, become unstable in flight, but did not land until after it glided beyond the perimeter fence.

great. brush fires, to boot.

[righttackle44]

DON’T YOU ALL GEE IT? THIS IS OBAMA’S PLAN FOR FEEDING THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN!