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

[Iron Munro]

Killing birds?

It’s okay if they are being sizzled by liberals and/or Greenies in the interests of advancing the progressive agenda.

But if it is hunters or conservatives killing the birds we are talking federal prosecution.

[colorado tanker]

If this was a coal generating station the feds would have had the owners in jail for this.

Of course, very, very bad coal doesn't kill little animals.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Today we were feeding the birds...

[JW1949]

Sorry, but hydroelectric dams create more, much more living space for fish than it kills them....

[jttpwalsh]

I seem to remember an oil company getting a fine of several thousand dollars from The Feds because two or three birds died after landing in an oil puddle....

[Logical me]

If we ever get back in power, order the total destruction of all solar farms and complete destruction of the wind mills. Order that the destruction to the landscape be restored. Then order the immediate reconstruction and new implementation of coal and natural gas fired plants.

[Sherman Logan]

Hydro works if it rains and/or snows enough.

Not so much during a mega-drought, as CA may be in the process of finding out.

[rktman]

Anyone hoping for a vicious hail storm? What about the desert tortoise’s habitat? Oh, an exemption? I see. As long as it’s green, a little “red” is acceptable.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Does it fry geckos and other desert creatures?

Sure, if you throw them up into the beam path.

[thackney]

pics from the company web site:

http://ivanpahsolar.com/

Unit #3

Unit #2

Unit #1

#2 & #3

from #2 looking towards #1

http://maps.google.com/?ll=35.55583,-115.46285&spn=0.128622,0.184708&t=h&z=13

[Paine in the Neck]

Sorry, but hydroelectric dams create more, much more living space for fish than it kills them....

It's not my assertion; it's the environuts'. They have been after deconstructing dams for decades. I'm just pointing out that what they claim is so awful about dams is entirely acceptable to them when it comes to the holy Gaian pair of wind and solar - plus the added benefits of ridiculous costs and unreliability.

[Osage Orange]

I like birds...and think they have worth.

I don't think they should be killed by the thousands...via wind and solar energy production.

And the fact that the MSM is mute on this subject...mostly is BS.

BTW...before you launch...I'm a hunter. I hunt turkey's mostly these days...but I've hunted doves, quail, ducks, pheasants in the past. So I'm not a bird hugger....but I like them and enjoy them in more ways than one!!!

[TangoLimaSierra]

If we ever get back in power, order the total destruction of all solar farms and complete destruction of the wind mills.

I hope you're only talking about the one's that get gov't subsidies. There's nothing wrong with alternative energy endeavors if it is supported by a free market.

[nascarnation]

Wanna bet the animal rights wackos are silent?

I think you'll be surprised. There will be lawsuits aplenty over this as the project continues to operate. These folks don't want "clean" energy either, they want LESS energy period.

[Navy Patriot]

Sigh, no wild turkeys running around in this area, California sucks no matter what.

[TruthWillWin]

Well if it scorches a spotted owl that will be the end of it?

[BitWielder1]

You can't aim a little laser pointer at an aircraft but a megawatt solar mirror is fine.

[Army Air Corps]

Maintenance on acres of mirrors must be fun.

[Iron Munro]

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.

I'm seeing a golden opportunity for a synergistic supply and demand system here:

Put some windmills and a Fast Food joint next to the solar array.

The windmills can slice 'em and dice 'em.

The solar array will fry them up on their way down.

And the Fast Food joint can serve up range-fed, organic, wild poultry tenders, soups, stews and kabobs
and also be a consumer of the electric power produced by the windmills and solar panels.

It is almost a perpetual motion system.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL— The Wind Farms chop them up.