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800 Degree Heat From Solar Mirrors Frying Birds Mid Air
Oilprice.com ^
| 11/07/2014
| Andy Tully
Posted on 07/10/2014 4:28:08 PM PDT by bananaman22
There is growing evidence that birds flying in the vicinity of a solar thermal power project in California’s Mojave Desert are being injured and even killed either by the solar heat that’s focused with mirrors on its three energy-collecting towers, or by colliding with the mirrors themselves.
Yet a task force set up to investigate the problem at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) has brushed aside several recommendations by the forensics laboratory of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), according to the minutes of a meeting on the subject obtained by the Los Angeles public television station KCET...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: birds; california; fishandwildlife; fws; isegs; ivanpah; kcet; losangeles; mojavedesert; power; solarenergy
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To: bananaman22
I love me sumb Hot Dead Bird Flesh...
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:28:58 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Vendome
Possible new way to dove hunt?
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:29:49 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(The democrat party is the CPUSA)
To: bananaman22
Who cares about birds? Darwin alert
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:32:51 PM PDT
by
montag813
To: bananaman22
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:37:28 PM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(As a Conservative, I am proud to be on the Obama's enemy list and on the right side of history..)
To: bananaman22
Just so long as Cliven Bundy’s tortoises aren’t hurt. /s
To: Trueblackman
This will go nowhere, Hypocrit Greenies will never go against Dear Leader and his Grennie far left Investors.
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:42:15 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: bananaman22
It’s all in the name of saving the planet.
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:52:26 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: bananaman22
They taste like chicken I imagine.
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posted on
07/10/2014 4:58:36 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: CivilWarBrewing
If only Publix could figure a way to have their chickens fly over these panels, think of the money they would save on rotisseries.
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:02:53 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: bananaman22
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:02:56 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: bananaman22
If you’ve not driven by that facility, the brightness and heat of the thing will impress mightily. I reckon any bird or bug that happens to fly through the beam at midday will get some serious flash roasting.
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:03:40 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: bananaman22
Instant rotisserie chickens? send a drone to fly one home to us. Thank you, alternative energy people.
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:03:53 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
To: Trueblackman
Read your bio/page. Smart man!
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:11:12 PM PDT
by
patriot08
(NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
To: Texas resident
Yeah, just so long as the skin is krispy.
Hot Dead Chicken skin, extra crispy is so gooooood!
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:24:35 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: bananaman22
OMG I laughed my ass off when I saw the thread title.
To: Trueblackman
I never kill anyone at the supper table.....................
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:34:28 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: bananaman22
Doesn’t this exacerbate global warming?
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:35:32 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(This is not my tag!)
To: bananaman22
They should cover the mirrors during the day to protect the birds.
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posted on
07/10/2014 5:47:39 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: bananaman22
Needs to be turned down to about 350. Some sort of multi-bird rotisserie is also needed. For NIMBYs...perhaps a rendering plant.
;-)
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posted on
07/10/2014 6:09:48 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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