Birds Dying Solar Panels Vegas

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Birds dying solar panels vegas.

Horror at the world s largest solar farm days after it opens as it is revealed panels are scorching birds that fly over them the ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest solar. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear. Joe desmond a spokesman for brightsource told the wall street journal the company is working to resolve the problem of bird deaths and plans to build more big solar plants in california and other. Yes birds have died at solar farms most famously at the ivanpah project in san bernardino county where birds have been incinerated as they fly through the solar flux reflected by fields of.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. Most of the 61 avian deaths at the project including a brown pelican and western grebes were attributed to birds flying into the solar panels. So why is this happening. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded.

One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with. The sight of a bird being fried to death is so common at the ivanpah solar plant in california s mojave desert that workers have nicknamed the smouldering birds streamers because they leave tiny wisps of white smoke behind as they burn up in the sky.