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 plume from birds that ignite in.
Solar panels setting birds on fire.
Many thousands of birds are said to have caught fire in midair above a massive solar thermal power plant near the california nevada border since it began operating in february.
Biologists say 130 birds caught fire mid air while entering an area of concentrated solar energy created by the.
It may be safe for a bird to land on an electrical wire but not on two of them at once.
Social sharing death estimates range from 1 000 to 28 000.
A june 5 fire at a california solar farm that scorched 1 127 acres started when a bird flew into a pair of.
Federal investigators say they counted an average of one bird catching fire every two minutes during their survey.