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Solar farm sets 130 birds on FIRE: ...power plant ignites creatures mid-air during tests
Daily Mail UK ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 02/23/2015 2:51:27 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

eXXXXtra Crispy..

damn.. they have really advanced the technologies, huh?


2 posted on 02/23/2015 2:52:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: matt04

How many bids caught fire after flying over a nuclear or coal plant?


3 posted on 02/23/2015 2:52:40 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

Just set up a KFC Franchise next door, and we’ll be good...


4 posted on 02/23/2015 2:52:47 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: matt04

WOW!!

Break out the barbeque sauce!

.......................LOTS of it!


5 posted on 02/23/2015 2:54:43 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote fraud solution: Stake, Rope, Sugar and Bullet Ants.)
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To: matt04

Nevada fried vulture. Yum!


6 posted on 02/23/2015 2:55:35 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (There is only one party, the uniparty, and corruption is its credo.)
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To: matt04

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.


7 posted on 02/23/2015 2:55:45 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: matt04

Any of them a pheasant or a duck?


8 posted on 02/23/2015 2:55:56 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: El Cid

Install some wind turbines and you got shredded, cooked poultry for the starving victims of the Baraqqi Depression!


9 posted on 02/23/2015 2:56:27 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: matt04

OOPS!


10 posted on 02/23/2015 2:56:31 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: matt04

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.

11 posted on 02/23/2015 2:56:39 PM PST by yoe (out in the open)
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To: matt04

At least a jet engine plucks them before they’re cooked.


12 posted on 02/23/2015 2:56:59 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: matt04

These birds are not being killed. It’s not an oil company.


13 posted on 02/23/2015 2:57:02 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: matt04

I bet some government funded research comes out showing that solar farms are completely safe for birds, but cows are bad for turtles.


14 posted on 02/23/2015 2:57:15 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: matt04

Hell of a lot of effort just to melt salt and fry endangered species.

But gotta save the planet, right?


15 posted on 02/23/2015 2:57:44 PM PST by Argus
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To: yoe

What about the desert tortoise?


16 posted on 02/23/2015 2:57:59 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: matt04

“As G d as my witness, I thought turkeys could fry”


17 posted on 02/23/2015 2:58:10 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: matt04

Now we know what is really causing global warming.


18 posted on 02/23/2015 2:59:34 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

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.


19 posted on 02/23/2015 2:59:52 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

ROFL!!!!!!


20 posted on 02/23/2015 3:00:36 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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