Going Solar.........

[Condor]

In SSC "Sunny Southern California"

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[hutch]

Yep...cheap clean power & they can feed the hungry too...c/p Extra Crispy? California Solar Farm Killed 3,500 Birds

More than 3,500 birds died during the 377-megawatt Ivanpah solar project’s first year of operation, a new report estimates.
Bird deaths were known at the “power tower” project, which is located in San Bernardino County off Interstate 15 just southwest of the Nevada border. But how many was unclear. Even at the 3,504 estimate, the report considers the deaths a “minimal proportion of local, regional, or national populations” of birds.
Ivanpah, the world’s largest concentrated solar project, uses thousands of mirrors that direct sunlight at boilers on top of three 459-foot tall towers, heating a liquid to create steam used to run a turbine. Carlsbad-based NRG Energy operates the Ivanpah project, which it co-owns with Google and Oakland-based BrightSource Energy.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service previously called Ivanpah — the world’s largest concentrated solar project — a “mega-trap” for birds and insects, although the exact number of deaths has been a subject of fiery debate.
An executive with Abengoa–one of the project’s developers–said the bid death problem is “solvable.”

Birds are killed when they fly through the towers, which can reach 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a Wall Street Journal article published in February of 2014. At the time, the publication noted that regulators knew some birds would die, but didn’t expect the dozens of avian deaths during the project’s construction and testing phase. They’re reaching the conclusion of their two-year study on the solar farm’s effects on birds.

Nevertheless, this isn’t an isolated incident. A solar panel farm in Nevada was frying birds flying through the facility. In one test, engineers and biologists noticed trails of smoke emanating from burning birds.

[Condor]

You are absolutely right... Those Dove and quail hunters are up in arms............

[SARGEQUANGTRI]

Yep...cheap clean power & they can feed the hungry too...c/p Extra Crispy? California Solar Farm Killed 3,500 Birds

More than 3,500 birds died during the 377-megawatt Ivanpah solar project’s first year of operation, a new report estimates.
Bird deaths were known at the “power tower” project, which is located in San Bernardino County off Interstate 15 just southwest of the Nevada border. But how many was unclear. Even at the 3,504 estimate, the report considers the deaths a “minimal proportion of local, regional, or national populations” of birds.
Ivanpah, the world’s largest concentrated solar project, uses thousands of mirrors that direct sunlight at boilers on top of three 459-foot tall towers, heating a liquid to create steam used to run a turbine. Carlsbad-based NRG Energy operates the Ivanpah project, which it co-owns with Google and Oakland-based BrightSource Energy.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service previously called Ivanpah — the world’s largest concentrated solar project — a “mega-trap” for birds and insects, although the exact number of deaths has been a subject of fiery debate.
An executive with Abengoa–one of the project’s developers–said the bid death problem is “solvable.”

Birds are killed when they fly through the towers, which can reach 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a Wall Street Journal article published in February of 2014. At the time, the publication noted that regulators knew some birds would die, but didn’t expect the dozens of avian deaths during the project’s construction and testing phase. They’re reaching the conclusion of their two-year study on the solar farm’s effects on birds.

Nevertheless, this isn’t an isolated incident. A solar panel farm in Nevada was frying birds flying through the facility. In one test, engineers and biologists noticed trails of smoke emanating from burning birds.

Why not erect 'anti-bird' netting around the entire installation ? It would eliminate the avian "kill-off"

[hutch]

An executive with Abengoa–one of the project’s developers–said the bid death problem is “solvable.”

Who knows maybe that was what he meant SARGE...lol...

[Condor]

Why not erect 'anti-bird' netting around the entire installation ? It would eliminate the avian "kill-off"



Around?? or over and around as birds do fly...Lol... (Just teasing on u Sarge... Hehehehee)

[SARGEQUANGTRI]

Around?? or over and around as birds do fly...Lol... (Just teasing on u Sarge... Hehehehee)



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[Gates07]

they just had a fire at one of those farms something got out of alignment and burnt some cables, just try and get a hook and ladder truck down one of those isles to put things out, and those fire guys would be out there with their axes clearing a path.

[edrik]

anybody know how well it will work on a rainy day?

[android fun]

i cant see the pictures

they say photo not found

[dishuser]

i cant see the pictures

they say photo not found

probably cause they were posted 2 years ago