Posted on 05/21/2016 5:38:40 AM PDT by rktman
That is horrid!
The left only loves something as long as that "love" furthers the agenda. As soon as something else that furthers the agenda comes along, the "love" evaporates like water in the desert.
As a cat lover, I am more than annoyed by leftist cat haters who blame cats for killing millions of birds every year (an assertion made with little evidence that cats' behavior is outside of the natural predator/prey relationship), but then give a free pass to "environmental" energy schemes that chop up or barbecue birds.
How about we stop these bird killing schemes? How many birds are killed by nuclear, trash incineration, or clean coal?
There are a dozen more links about it. Libs don’t care. “Green energy” trumps bird life.
This is from the Atlantic link:
Researchers found that the bright lights created by the facilities—brighter even than surrounding daylight—attracted insects. At Ivanpah, researchers found “hundreds upon hundreds” of dead butterflies, including already-stressed monarchs, some with singed wings. Birds came to feed on the insects, and bigger birds came to feed on the insect-eaters. When birds flew into the hottest areas, observers saw them emit streams of smoke from their feathers. On-the-ground staff found birds with their flight feathers burned away, some still alive but unable to fly. During their visit to Ivanpah, the report states, USFWS staff saw birds burn in midair “every two minutes.”
If that wasn’t bad enough, birds are dying in a completely different—but equally ugly—manner at other facilities. Researchers found an unusually high number of water birds dead at the Desert Sunlight facility. These birds, including grebes, herons, ducks, and even pelicans, died not from the heat but from blunt force trauma. The cause was clear, as stated in the report: “A desert environment punctuated by a large expanse of reflective, blue panels may be reminiscent of a large body of water.” These birds—tired from flying over the hot desert—home in on what looks like a calm lake but instead crash into hard panels. They either die instantly or, as researchers found, lie helpless for land-based predators. Grebes need to take flight from water, so being marooned on land makes them sitting ducks for predators, should they survive the impact of landing on the panels or desert floor.
That is horrible and so tragic.
I have had the happy experience of watching geese in a pond outside of my office window. A goose sat every day on top of a beaver mound. Then one day, the goose was no longer there, but a pair of geese were off by the side of the road with five specks moving around their feet. Those specks are now three weeks old, still little—about 8 inches long now—but growing fast. It is soothing to watch them.
How awful that concern for the environment should go out the window when it comes to imposing an “environmental” energy source that clearly is neither environmental nor effective.
I’ve observed for a long time that the left does not care about effective solutions. Rather, the left just wants things done differently, with no regard for efficacy. Thus, these alternative energy schemes must be supported at all cost, since they are different than the methods we know actually work.
And when these issues were raised to the solar power freaks it was pooh poohed.
Because mirrors create nothing. They merely redirect energy in this case sunlight
any one that signed the govt loan should be personably responsible for pmt - Obongo comes to mind
Yes. A large number of mirrors are used to reflect lots of sunlight onto a very small space, heating water to boiling and the resulting steam running a turbine for an electrical generator. Not strange or stupid.
I cant say anything nice, so.....
LOL! Following Thumper’s Mom’s advice I see.
Isn’t this the place that fries birds flying by?
Yep. And inbound Vegas flights try to avoid the area.
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As if we didn’t KNOW there was collusion from the Leftists.
No outcry from PETA on the exemption these boon-dongles receive; unlike the multi-year ‘enviro studies’ that must be done ala trans-pipeline recently.
Just like NOW vs. Bill Clinton; it’s all politics over policy.
If it lines the pockets of any Leftist, not a problem. If it aids The People (cheaper, cleaner air, water, power, more choices/Freedom), then there’s hell to pay.
Unsustainable.
Everywhere ants are laughing. ;-)
Give that thing to Venezuela, I hear they need to be electrify...
There’s never a YUGE hail storm when you need one. That’s a lot of mirrors. How many years of bad luck would that get ya?
You miss the point
the boondoggle permits siphoning administrative funds in both development and operational expenditures into the coffers of the chosen few.
the whole deal is to take money from the treasury. there is no real intent to produce power in a meaningful way
Barack Obama is the most successful criminal in history
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