Birds Explode Midflight Through Solar Panel Field

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 plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Birds explode midflight through solar panel field.

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. Such hapless birds can be burned to death killed by brute force when they. The problem has been going on since the site opened in 2014 and the team says it s trying everything to save the birds from a fiery fate. 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.

Aug 19 2014 federal wildlife investigators in california are trying to halt a planned solar installation that would be twice as large as ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s. A macabre fireworks show unfolds each day along i 15 west of las vegas as birds fly into concentrated beams of sunlight and are instantly incinerated leaving wisps of white smoke against the blue. The birds killed at ivanpah include a peregrine falcon a red shouldered hawk and an ash throated flycatcher. Solar power generators in california are causing birds to literally drop from the sky.

The report recommends among other things that nrg shut down the power plant during peak. That s the name given to birds as their feathers ignite mid air after flying through a concentrated beam of sunlight. Matt sampson has the details.