Bird Burning Mid Flight Solar Panel

While there they found that birds were burning and falling because of the solar panel.

Bird burning mid flight solar panel.

Like windmills whose brazenly rotating blades have been known to slice and dice our avian friends solar panels come with a macabre side effect. 18 2014 11 49 am pdt workers at a state of the art solar plant in the mojave desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant s concentrated sun rays streamers for the smoke. Thousands of birds are flying into a new solar mega trap in the middle of. 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.

Matt sampson has the details. Solar power generators in california are causing birds to literally drop from the sky. Biologists say 130 birds caught fire mid air while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the. A macabre fireworks show unfolds each day along i 15 west of las vegas as birds fly into concentrated beams of sunlight and are instantly incinerated leaving wisps of white smoke against the blue.