From a poster on the bird kill youtube -—— This type of solar facility is an old technology, that is no longer really being built. Photovoltaic plants (sunlight directly to energy) don’t have the extreme temperature problems that concentrated solar thermal plants do.
Solar panels and the technology has improved tremendously since the initial types 40 or more years ago. Beware of all the misinformation posted on FR about solar.
That bird killing plant was built in 2014, so it is hardly old technology. The YouTube commenter was just plain wrong.
I also recall reading where the photovoltaic cells also cause bird death. Birds mistake them for water and try to land, then the high heat gets them. I’ll have to try to find that reference again.
Heck...
Beware of all the misinformation posted on FR about ANYTHING!
But; most of all...
Beware of all the misinformation posted anywhere on anything!!