Solar Panel Field Killing Birds

The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear.

Solar panel field killing birds. If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays. 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 vast field of solar panels which would generate enough electricity to power 230 000 average california homes according to its developer would kill birds. One of their main complaints.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. This is called a lake effect birds have been found dead wounded or stranded at several solar projects in the desert. Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines.

The ivanpah solar plant in san bernardino county is killing thousands of birds blasting them into wisps of smoke against the sky that plant workers call business california. Fish and wildlife service. A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in california is accidentally killing up to 6 000 birds every year with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight and spontaneously bursting into flames. The estimate by biologists is that the ivanpah solar plant kills about 3 500 birds per year this way.

Meanwhile as many as 28 000 birds are killed each year that s one every two minutes by the ivanpah solar plant in the mojave desert according to the u s.