An adorable baby bald eagle whose parents were executed by solar panels. (AP)
Posted on 05/07/2014 5:42:01 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
An adorable baby bald eagle whose parents were executed by solar panels. (AP)
The Obama administration has opened up a new front in its war on America’s eagles. For years, the president has relied on wind turbines to orchestrate his eco-genocide. Biologists estimate that wind farms kill as many as 328,000 birds each year by chopping them out of the sky. The administration’s successful weaponization of solar farms will only accelerate the death rate.
Studies indicate that the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California has proved to be an especially efficient apparatus for eagle extermination. The facility, which was financed in part by a $1.6 billion taxpayer-backed loan from the Department of Energy, has been incinerating innocent birds with heat lasers created by its massive array of 350,000 garage door-sized mirrors.
National Journal reports:
First, insects are drawn to the reflective light of the solar mirrors. That draws small, insect-eating birds, which in turn draw larger predatory birds. The rays of the mirrors’ reflected light produces temperatures from 800 degrees to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Any animal caught in the intense glare of the mirror’s rays may catch fire and plummet toward the ground, or spontaneously combust altogether.
Bloomberg notes that the birds are either “incinerated in flight; their feathers are singed, causing them to fall to their deaths; or they are too injured to fly and are killed on the ground by predators.” Birds that ignite after passing into the Ivanpah kill zone are known as “streamers.” Reports estimate that 141 birds have died at the Ivanpah facility, which opened in February.
The Ivanpah solar facility in California. (AP)
Energy secretary and hair icon Ernest Moniz attended the opening ceremony at Ivanpah, but kept getting photo-bombed by dying eagles.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. (AP)
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Bald eagles absolutely do.
Is that out in the Antelope Valley? I saw one similar to that off the CA138 under construction some time back on my way out to the I5...
The wind turbines do a pretty good job of whacking birds...the speeds at the tips of the blades can get quite fast and the birds stand little chance if they “misjudge”.
Yeah, that one got me too. They are opportunistic feeders and will eat anything they can sink their talons in.
Makes me think of prop planes at an airport. Misjudge or get careless and you become a pink mist.
I am blessed to live on Puget Sound. See bald and golden eagles daily. Occasionally we see baldy fly by with a gull hanging in it’s grip. I’m sure they’d grab them more often if they could catch them. The gulls gang up on the eagles, and the smaller water birds just dive under when the eagles get close.
I never liked working around props for that very reason...
Me too, though the jets can do a number on you, too.
plus, the landing gear and size of the commercial big boys have led to horrible accidents. There was a story about a ground crew getting fought under one and being popped like a grape.
terrifying
I never worked commercial birds, mainly fighters and C-5s and C-141s(about as close as I get to commercial sized birds)...I’d rather be under a fighter engine at full burner than anywhere near a prop or dealing with LOX...
Lots of stories about guys getting sucked into intakes and other various other accidents around fighters...
This guy is probably the luckiest man alive...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3Iz7b95-8
Thanks for the reply. Upon further research, I stand corrected, regarding eagles preying on birds.
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