Bird Burning Mid Flight Solar Panel

The issue was discovered by federal wildlife investigators who toured the brightsource energy plant last year.

Bird burning mid flight solar panel. Matt sampson has the details. 18 2014 11 49 am pdt workers at a state of the art solar plant in the mojave desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant s concentrated sun rays streamers for the smoke. Gather enough of them together in a certain. More than 100 birds have been injured during testing of a new solar power farm.

While there they found that birds were burning and falling because of the solar panel. Like windmills whose brazenly rotating blades have been known to slice and dice our avian friends solar panels come with a macabre side effect. Thousands of birds are flying into a new solar mega trap in the middle of. Biologists say 130 birds caught fire mid air while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the.