Some animal rights activists are wondering just how many birds green energy may unintentionally kill as more and more birds turn up dead at solar energy facilities throughout California.
A recent article by Vice author Lex Berko notes that dead birds are being found with "singed wings" around several California solar energy facilities.
It happens that many of California's solar plants are, the article claims, in the path of "the four major north-to-south trajectories for migratory birds" called "the Pacific Flyway."
Birds are dying in one of two ways. In some cases, they imagine the shining solar panels to be bodies of water and dive straight into them. There they die when they smash into the panels from the sky.
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5 comments:
where are the tree huggers on this one? idiots
They were hit with Ray and particle beams from un manned aircraft secretly patrolling our skies.
A PV solar array cannot possibly scorch wings. There are solar mirror arrays that focus sunlight on a heated tower that generates electricity where this may be a possibility, but it's my information that these are rare and experimental.
So, the writer it taking it a bit past the edge, but the bird chopping windmills are lethal, especially those located offshore, offering birds a place to land and rest with no non lethal alternatives.
Wind Mills need to have warning sings to warn the birds of danger.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
where are the tree huggers on this one? idiots
November 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Bozo said...
A PV solar array cannot possibly scorch wings. There are solar mirror arrays that focus sunlight on a heated tower that generates electricity where this may be a possibility, but it's my information that these are rare and experimental.
So, the writer it taking it a bit past the edge, but the bird chopping windmills are lethal, especially those located offshore, offering birds a place to land and rest with no non lethal alternatives.
November 16, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Both of you not only wasted your time, but ours as well.
Don't you have a keg party or something to go to?
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