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by Dazzler5648
1294 days ago
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It's hilarious how some commenters are concerned about bird poop, when fact of the matter, birds die by the thousands each year in California alone either mistaking solar farms for lakes and attempting water landings, or by dying by fire in panels' collective solar flux. This pond will be covered in carcasses. This type of solar farm is doomed to spend that money saved in either prevention and/or cleanup and repair. |
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That is exclusive to concentrated solar[1], which is essentially obsolete.
> birds die by the thousands each year
A BILLION birds die each year from flying into windows in the US[2]. In fact the majority of birds killed at Ivanpah are killed by flying into the tower, not from being cooked.
> This pond will be covered in carcasses.
Nope! If a bird tries to fly into a rack-mounted panel, it'll probably die, because it's basically flying directly into the surface. If it tries to land on a FLAT panel, it'll be totally fine. Birds don't try landing on water by smashing directly into it.
Also, I have never heard of this "water landing" theory, I suspect its bullshit, and I'm very skeptical that there are many birds trying to do water landings in Texas due to the fact that there aren't a whole lotta lakes there because it's Texas.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%E2%80%93window_collisions