Whatever you do, don't use turkeys!
Posted on 02/24/2015 5:44:40 AM PST by thackney
Solar farm sets 130 birds on FIRE: Extreme glow of power plant ignites creatures mid-air during tests
Around 130 birds have been injured near Tonopah, Nevada
- 'Streamers' caught alight while while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
- Experts think birds may have been attracted by glow of the farm's tower
- Experts have previously claimed that a California solar array part owned by Google is killing nearly 30,000 birds per year
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.
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Those birds that aren't killed become zombie birds that go on to attack humans by pecking their brains out.
The "heroes" of the movie finally realize that the only proper thing for humans to do is move underground and live off mushrooms and cave slime.
It is not adding heat to the “global system”. It is taking solar radiation that already was striking the earth and concentrating it in a much smaller area.
Whatever you do, don't use turkeys!
Wait till they nail a condor or two. Maybe the US government will issue a dispensation for condors killed by power plants.
Yes CONDORS WILL BE EXEMPT....before they become extinct
How do they keep the mirrors clean out in the desert?
30,000 birds killed every year (probably more) x the number of birds that would have been born to them equals millions of birds being killed off for a power plant that does not work at night.
Doesn’t matter.
The primary purpose of the solar farm has been accomplished.
Those who supported building it feel good about themselves. Issue closed.
soaking up as many tax dollars as possible
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