Birds Getting Killed By Solar Panels

15 september 2016 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.

Birds getting killed by solar panels.

Yes birds have died at solar farms most famously at the ivanpah project in san bernardino county where birds have been incinerated as they fly through the solar flux reflected by fields of. Resident birds such as nighthawks and migrant species including yellow warblers have been feasting on caterpillars grasshoppers dragonflies beetles bees and wasps though far more bugs get. If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays. 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 from birds that ignite.

The low estimate for bird deaths from solar power comes from the solar company brightsource which was recently accused by the center for biological diversity of operating a solar farm that kills. The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually.

One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded.