Solar Panel Field Killing Birds

Another problem with large solar farms is that birds sometimes mistake the glossy blue expanse of solar panels for bodies of water and try to land on them.

Solar panel field killing birds.

Fish and wildlife service. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually. One leading theory suggests birds mistake the glare from solar panels for the surface of a lake and swoop in for a landing with. This is called a lake effect birds have been found dead wounded or stranded at several solar projects in the desert.

If they do they can basically get cooked by the high energy rays. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded. The link between solar facilities and bird deaths is still unclear. The vast field of solar panels which would generate enough electricity to power 230 000 average california homes according to its developer would kill birds.

One of their main complaints. 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 other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar power. The estimate by biologists is that the ivanpah solar plant kills about 3 500 birds per year this way.

Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines.