New Solar Power Plants are Incinerating Birds

weather.com ^ | August 18, 2014 | Eric Zerkel

[WayneS]

Them’s good eatin’...

[Army Air Corps]

Next, build a wind farm immediately adjacent to the solar farm. Then, build a giant wok at the solar farm...

[no-to-illegals]

Not surprising ... Actions/Consequences ... can never have one without the other.

[Bubba_Leroy]

A quasi-food chain is being established around the solar plant, with predators eating birds and bats that burn up in the plant's solar rays chasing after insects which are attracted to the bright light from the sun's reflected rays.

All they need is some Cajun seasoning to go with the blackened bird.

[Cen-Tejas]

I just wonder how many billions of taxpayer dollars it took to get this boondoggle up and running.

[mikrofon]

Bad enough the poor creatures are diced & julienned by wind turbines, now this ??

Calling PETA .... (People Eating Tasty Avians)

[hal ogen]

New Econut/Audubon motto: Birds...we don’t need no steenkin’ birds!

[yoe]

Where is the EPA when you really need them....the 'wind mills' are killing a fair amount of birds also....PETA's silence is audible by its absence....and where are the Green's incontinent voice? None of the usual suspects stepping up to the plate to save the birds done in by these devices.

[I want the USA back]

The left doesn’t care. They will blame it on global warming.

BTW, I could have told them this would happen, but they were too stupid to ask.

[Travis McGee]

Here is an idea for public participation executions of condemned criminals.

Everybody bring a mirror to a stadium...stake the condemned to the middle of the field.

Everybody adds a degree or so.

Then various sections can shine their lights on other sections. Bring sunglasses, or perhaps welding goggles.

[MrEdd]

Yawn.

[bigbob]

big deal

[gigster]

Bird Zappers...

[Celtic Conservative]

I like it. Sort of “it takes a village to fry a convict”.

CC

[erikm88]

There was a facility like this in California that eventually closed down. I thought they were not building facilities like this any more due to inefficiency in generation?

[Steve_Seattle]

You or I can be fined or arrested for having an eagle feather, but Obama’s “green” energy buddies and donors with their wind and solar farms can kill thousands of protected birds with impunity.

[CrazyIvan]

They should change the name to Icarus Energy.

[No One Special]

I really did LOL. Welding goggles, great.

[Steve_Seattle]

This bird kill should have been totally predictable. I wonder who approved the EIS for this project and if they were “encouraged” to do so by higher-ups?