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So over two years a bird died about every two days? Cool story bro
Stupid birds don't know we're trying to cool them off.Death by solar farms: 71 species of birds killed, ‘entire food chains’ disrupted
A new report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finds that solar facilities in California are acting like “mega traps” that kill and injure birds. As a result, “entire food chains” are being disrupted.
USFWS’s National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory studied three solar farms in Southern California: Desert Sunlight, Genesis Solar and Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS). Two-hundred and thirty-three different birds from 71 species were found over the course of a two-year study.
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The three main causes of death were:
1. Solar flux: Exposure to temperatures over 800 degrees F.
2. Impact (or blunt force) trauma: The birds’ wings are rendered inoperable while flying, causing them to crash into the ground. Birds that do not die are often injured badly enough to make them vulnerable to predators.
3. Predators: When a bird’s wings are singed and it can not fly, it loses its primary means of defense against animals like foxes and coyotes.
Hummingbirds, swifts, swallows, doves, hawks, finches, warblers and owls were just some dead birds found at the solar facilities’ “equal opportunity” mortality hazards.
In one instance, lab staff observed a “falcon-type bird with a plume of smoke arising from the tail as it passed through [a] flux field.”
The study found that besides the intense heat, birds may be mistaking large solar panels for bodies of water. The injured birds then attract insects and other predators to the area. They, too, are then vulnerable to injury or death.
In one instance, researchers found “hundreds upon hundreds” of butterfly carcasses (including Monarchs). The insects were attracted to the light from the solar farms, which in turn attracted birds and perpetuated a cycle of death and injury.
One of the recommendations of the study, which stated that the number of deaths was likely underrepresented, was to retrofit solar panels to discourage birds and insects from congregating in the area.
California’s KCET, a public television station, reported the findings of the USFWS’s report may affect the state’s decision to proceed with the Palen Solar Electric Generating System, “a much larger version of Ivanpah proposed for the Chuckwalla Valley in Riverside County.”
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So over two years a bird died about every two days? Cool story bro
get boutons in here.
first the herring, now the birds???
this is a hard pill to swallow
I have had 4 birds die in the last year striking my vaulted ceiling windows.
I have now reported myself and ask mercy from the snake gone green.
can someone tweet this to boutons? his lack of presence is getting hawkward.
Killer Kitties? Cats Kill Billions Of Creatures Every Year
Previous studies had suggested that cats kill about 500 million birds a year. Marra's group came up with something very different. "We estimate that cats kill somewhere between 1.4 and 3.7 billion birds a year," Marra says. "For mammals, it's upward of about 15 billion."
Marra says based on those new figures, cat-caused mortality far exceeds deaths from other sources, like collisions with cars or wind turbines.
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/29/170588...ons-every-year
Did your vaulted ceiling windows require 100's of million of dollars of taxpayer money, and permanently destroy 1000's of acres of protected park land under the guise of being environmentally friendly when if fact the provide zero environmental benefit...zero.
I'm not green and neither are the enlightened progressive environmentalists who support these projects.
Fish kill fish...BP did the gulf of favor. lol your logic boutons
Link to the 1000s of acres of permanently destroyed protected park land please
lol talking points
Do you support funding solar farms? Why?
If we fund oil and coal, why not solar?
Provides no benefits over oil and coal. Do you think it does?
edit...Solar farms that is.
There is more solar power available for the long term future than oil and coal.
Let me know how many birds were killed by oil and coal in the past two years since you care so much about the birds.
Or are you just putting up a talking point and don't really give a about birds?
the cats are not natural cats, but an invasive species own as pets, plus the pet cats that go feral
So because oil and coal will someday run out you support permanently destroying federally protected lands for large scale solar projects. Do you support opening up protected lands for oil and coal development?
Neither are solar farms dumbass. lol boutons logic
Define "permanently destroying" -- and which protected lands?
Give us a list of all the lands and the size of the solar projects on those lands compared to the total square mileage of each.
Thanks in advance.
yes, outside apt I is see how fat cat that live by complex is take baby bird and eat. At end all I see is feather on floor and feel like cry
Bird Deaths Continue at Ivanpah Solar as Tortoises Go Missing
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/sola...o-missing.html
Oh wait....never mind... those tortoises...in this case.
what's the matter boutons? cat got ya tongue?
but you rightwingers don't whimper, whimper, and about cats killings 100Ms of birds, do you?
Already the case, I believe. Federal lands are leased to oil and gas companies, coal I'm not sure of.
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