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The BrightSource Energy Plant uses a process called the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which uses more than 300,000 mirrors larger than garage doors to focus the sun’s power towards ‘power towers’, which can then power up to 140,000 homes.
However, the $2.2billion (£1.3billion) plant has wreaked havoc on local wildlife, with experts saying that up to 28,000 birds could die within a year as they prey on bugs that are drawn to the light and scorched to death as they fly near the panels.
originally posted by: proob4
a reply to: Lady_Tuatha
All ready been posted. Like last week all ready. And I still think it's a HOAX!
originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
1 bird every 2 minutes, 28 thousand birds per year, it's not worth it.
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: Lady_Tuatha
There is always a downside to everything. Solar is bad because it ignites birds and changes the ecology under the mirror arrays. Wind is bad because it ruins the landscape views and attracts raptors to their deaths [hence the name "Condormatic" for the California wind turbines.] Hydro is bad because fish can't fornicate. Biomass is bad because it requires more energy to collect biomass than is gleaned from it. Wood stoves put out far more pollution than gas heaters. Gas is bad because of fracking. Coal is bad just because it is coal and all of the envirofolk have agreed that coal is bad. [In fact, coal is concentrated, vintage biomass. One foot of coal is derived from 20 feet of biomass. The Pittsburgh seam, roughly 8 feet thick, is the equivalent of a 160 foot thick layer of biomass.] Interestingly enough, all of these are manifestations of solar energy.
Then there are the nukes. The pressurized water reactors are relatively pollution free...except when they fail. And when they fail, the danger is unmatched by any other energy source.
originally posted by: proob4
a reply to: Lady_Tuatha
All ready been posted. Like last week all ready. And I still think it's a HOAX!