World’s largest solar plant is open, but its mirrors scorch birds (Cal--f Mohve Desert )

Marketwatch ^ | February 13, 2014, 4:15 PM | By Claudia Assis

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The world’s largest solar plant is officially online in the Mojave desert — and it is causing some dismay.

That’s because the technology the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station uses could be a threat to wildlife — it generates heat so intense there’s growing evidence it is scorching birds, according to The Wall Street Journal.

[DannyTN]

World's Largest Solar and Fried Poultry Plant

[Blood of Tyrants]

You can kill anything you want in the name of saving the planet from globull warming.

[nascarnation]

Combine this with wind turbines and you get shredded and baked!

[I want the USA back]

Gross negligence and mismanagement. If they had asked me, I would have told them about the birds.

Wanna bet the animal rights wackos are silent?

Wanna bet every damned last democrat shuts up about it?

[montag813]

Who cares about stupid birds?

[Alex Murphy]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Alternative energy is one of the big left-wing loves, along with whacko environmentalism. Now they can tell the endangered eagles and condors: If our windmills don’t slice you in half, our solar panels will fry you.

[billorites]

[stars & stripes forever]

Between windmills and solar panels, birds will be met with ‘foul play.’

[thackney]

More pictures at the link below (AP pics, don’t post here)

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/02/13/huge-thermal-plant-opens-as-solar-industry-grows/#20607-2

Using technology known as solar-thermal, nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors roughly the size of a garage door reflect sunlight to boilers atop 459-foot towers. The sun’s power is used to heat water in the boilers’ tubes and make steam, which drives turbines to create electricity.

While many people are familiar with rooftop solar, or photovoltaic panels, “these are a little bit different. This takes the sun’s rays and reflects them onto towers,” said NRG spokesman Jeff Holland.

The plant can be a startling sight for drivers heading toward Las Vegas along busy Interstate 15. Amid miles of rock and scrub, its vast array of 7-by-10-foot mirrors creates the image of an ethereal lake shimmering atop the desert floor. In fact, it’s built on a dry lakebed.

[BilLies]

IF ONLY A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN HAD DONE IT WE’D BE TALKING SOME HEADLINES.

[stars & stripes forever]

Does it fry geckos and other desert creatures?

[DoughtyOne]

I’m waiting for Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein to demand a low level fly-over so they can take credit. Someone should alert Obama, so he doesn’t lose out...

Heh heh heh...

[Paine in the Neck]

Power generation according to Gaia:

Windfarms	Solar Steam	Hydroelectric Dams
Covers vast swaths of wilderness Chops up birds unreliable power, needs gas or diesel backup very expensive	Covers vast swaths of wilderness Flash roasts birds No power in the dark, requires backup very expensive	Covers vast swaths of wilderness Kills fish reliable 24 hr/day power pays for itself
Good	Good	Bad, Bad, Bad...very Bad

[DoughtyOne]

...and it’s not from that Christian centric region of the nation, the deep (fried) south.

[Steely Tom]

The insides of a nuclear reactor would scorch birds too, but for the fact that they’re surrounded by about six inches of high-strength steel, and that is surrounded by two or three feet of reinforced concrete.

[Fiji Hill]

The plant can be a startling sight for drivers heading toward Las Vegas along busy Interstate 15. Amid miles of rock and scrub, its vast array of 7-by-10-foot mirrors creates the image of an ethereal lake shimmering atop the desert floor. In fact, it’s built on a dry lakebed.

Indeed, it is a spectacular site, where not so long ago there was nothing. I drove by it yesterday. It's just south of Stateline, Nev., and about 10 miles north of Mountain Pass, Calif.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The feral government only cares about wildlife and the environment when they can used as weapons against the peasants.

[Pajamajan]

Poor birds- Where are the animal rights people?