Solar Panel Field Killing Birds

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.

Solar panel field killing birds.

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 other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. 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. With a concentraing solar plant birds can be harmed when they fly too close to the path of the reflected solar energy.

Fish and wildlife service. The estimate by biologists is that the ivanpah solar plant kills about 3 500 birds per year this way. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear.

One of their main complaints. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays. Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines.

Another problem with large solar farms is that birds sometimes mistake the glossy blue expanse of solar panels for bodies of water and try to land on them.