Birds Getting Killed By Solar Panels

Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually.

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. The estimate by biologists is that the ivanpah solar plant kills about 3 500 birds per year this way. 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. If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays.

The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. With a concentraing solar plant birds can be harmed when they fly too close to the path of the reflected solar energy. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. 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.

Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines. 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.