Remember how the Left went apoplectic over ANWR because the Caribou would have to migrate a little?
If I were a Republican I would have an ad up showing these fried birds and ask their opponent what side they were on, the birds or Solyndra? Then remind the voters that their opponents side lent AND LOST a nearly $600 million dollar loan to fund the BIRD KILLERS.
We need to start to throw the language right back in their faces!
Look at your liberal acquaintances and freak them out by calling BIRD MURDERERS.
“All told, the facility at Ivanpah generates enough electricity to power 140,000 homes...”
So long as those homes only use electricity during the bright, sun-shiney hours of the day.
We have to build the solar farms, because The Models predict that if we don’t convert to solar energy, the globe will overheat in 100 years. We should even do this notwithstanding the fact that The Models didn’t predict that when birds fly though megawatt solar energy beams, they will get singed. Not in 100 years, but in a small fraction of a second. Still, we have to trust The Models, and their incontrovertible Predictions. Because who are we to say the models make errors in their predictions? Such blasphemy is for the birds.
1.8 million seems a good price when these companies are getting billions in direct subsidies in a state that forces consumers to buy this extremely expensive energy. And great planning there. Steam boilers in the dryest place on US soil where people are fined for watering their lawns.
The site encompasses over 3,500 acres.
Now, consider that for the amount of power created (392 MW).
A recent Combined Cycle Natural Gas plant, that will produce over 800 MW, is situated on 20 acres.
Who is the $1.8 million going to? The birds’ next of kin?
No concern shown for the poor flying insects that get fried? These Greens are specie-ist bigots!!!
Environazis always busy creating new ways to murder wildlife. Why do they hate birds so much?
And we should care about this, when all of the collected electricity from the solar plant has helped keep the living room light on for 10 seconds in Barbara Boxer’s house? Who’s more important to us, Boxer or a bunch of winged rodents?
If they did, they'd be working on developing a way to collect the heat released when the birds are incinerated so it can be used to generate steam, instead of just being released in to the atmosphere.
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They should have foreseen this before building this junk. It pains me to think of the birds dying this painful and unnecessary death. Typical libtards. They do something to supposedly solve a problem and NEVER EVER think of the repercussions of their actions.