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New Solar Power Plants are Incinerating Birds
weather.com ^ | August 18, 2014 | Eric Zerkel

Posted on 08/18/2014 8:30:30 AM PDT by No One Special

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To: CrazyIvan
"They should change the name to Icarus Energy."

Good one.
21 posted on 08/18/2014 8:59:21 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: CrazyIvan

Ha! Also made me think of Icarus


22 posted on 08/18/2014 9:02:04 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: No One Special

What did they think? They couldn’t see this coming? it is the most obvious thing imaginable. And windmills chop birds in pieces.
What is this? the left hates birds?
(no. birds are being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness)


23 posted on 08/18/2014 9:02:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: No One Special

We need right wing lawyers to shut down this ENTIRE travesty for the good of the birds. The left does it for snail darters, the yellow bellied bumblebee and the redheaded pterodactyl (or whatever).


24 posted on 08/18/2014 9:02:42 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: No One Special

Precooked sqab....

Toasted sky rat in the skies....

“Every energy source is Murder” soon to be the rally cry of environmentalist wack jobs....

I guess we should all just kill ourselves to make the green nazi’s happy...


25 posted on 08/18/2014 9:03:20 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

How about Poof Power!


26 posted on 08/18/2014 9:05:20 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: No One Special
"According to the Associated Press, up to 28,000 birds per year might be meeting an early death after burning up in the focused beams of sunlight, with birds dying at a rate of one bird every two minutes. The burned-up birds are being dubbed "streamers," after the poof of smoke produced by the igniting birds."

Someone needs to check their math. There are about 525,000 minutes in a year, so a death every two minutes would be more than 262,000 a year, not 28,000.
27 posted on 08/18/2014 9:06:20 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SgtHooper
"How about Poof Power!"

That might be confused with the Gay Rights movement.
28 posted on 08/18/2014 9:07:32 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

No Pooftahs.


29 posted on 08/18/2014 9:09:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: I want the USA back
"What did they think? They couldn’t see this coming? It is the most obvious thing imaginable. And windmills chop birds in pieces."

If we still had a watchdog press instead of an Obama lapdog press, these questions would be investigated. Maybe they'll wait until the next Republican is elected before they investigate it.
30 posted on 08/18/2014 9:12:15 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: dfwgator

I’ve heard the British use both “poofter” and “poof” to refer to gays.


31 posted on 08/18/2014 9:13:16 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: No One Special

Hopefully somebody gets to eat crow.


32 posted on 08/18/2014 9:13:30 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: No One Special

Remember how the Left went apoplectic over ANWR because the Caribou would have to migrate a little?

http://www.defenders.org/sites/default/files/publications/caribou_in_the_arctic_national_wildlife_refuge.pdf

If I were a Republican I would have an ad up showing these fried birds and ask their opponent what side they were on, the birds or Solyndra? Then remind the voters that their opponents side lent AND LOST a nearly $600 million dollar loan to fund the BIRD KILLERS.

We need to start to throw the language right back in their faces!

Look at your liberal acquaintances and freak them out by calling BIRD MURDERERS.


33 posted on 08/18/2014 9:15:37 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Steve_Seattle

“Someone needs to check their math. There are about 525,000 minutes in a year, so a death every two minutes would be more than 262,000 a year, not 28,000. “

But the sun only shines during the day.


34 posted on 08/18/2014 9:16:25 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: No One Special

“All told, the facility at Ivanpah generates enough electricity to power 140,000 homes...”

So long as those homes only use electricity during the bright, sun-shiney hours of the day.


35 posted on 08/18/2014 9:19:36 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: I want the USA back
What is this? the left hates birds?

Sorta.

It's the typical cognitive dissonance we see every day coming from the Left.

They say we need these inefficient energy boondoggles to "save the planet," yet these inefficient energy boondoggles end up annihilating the planet's wildlife.

To this, they just shrug.

Their hypocrisy baffles the mind.

36 posted on 08/18/2014 9:19:52 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: No One Special

We have to build the solar farms, because The Models predict that if we don’t convert to solar energy, the globe will overheat in 100 years. We should even do this notwithstanding the fact that The Models didn’t predict that when birds fly though megawatt solar energy beams, they will get singed. Not in 100 years, but in a small fraction of a second. Still, we have to trust The Models, and their incontrovertible Predictions. Because who are we to say the models make errors in their predictions? Such blasphemy is for the birds.


37 posted on 08/18/2014 9:21:16 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: 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?

Perhap this: "So far, the only remedy appears to be cash. BrightSource has anted up $1.8 million to compensate for bird deaths." . . . to who(m)? The birds' relatives?

38 posted on 08/18/2014 9:33:52 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: No One Special

1.8 million seems a good price when these companies are getting billions in direct subsidies in a state that forces consumers to buy this extremely expensive energy. And great planning there. Steam boilers in the dryest place on US soil where people are fined for watering their lawns.


39 posted on 08/18/2014 9:38:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Flycatcher
Their hypocrisy baffles the mind.

Reminds me of a film from my psych 1 class.

A baby (toddler?) is sitting up watching a toy train go down an incline, through a tunnel and out the other side, and it's repeated some number of times, the kid following the train.

Then the tunnel is blocked, stopping the train from going through to the other side.

During that next run, the kid dutifully follows the train to the other side, but since there's no train, the head snaps back to the tunnel exit.

Liberals somehow lose the ability to notice when something has gone awry.

40 posted on 08/18/2014 9:42:53 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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