Birds Explode Midflight Through Solar Panel Field

15 september 2016 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.

Birds explode midflight through solar panel field.

Thousands of birds are flying into a new solar mega trap in the middle of. At best they ll bless them with a splatter of droppings. Solar power generators in california are causing birds to literally drop from the sky. Matt sampson has the details.

That s the name given to birds as their feathers ignite mid air after flying through a concentrated beam of sunlight. If you install solar panels on your roof don t expect your birds to show any appreciation. A bay area company is being urged to make changes to its state of the art solar plant since thousands of birds have been burned to death by its panels. A macabre fireworks show unfolds each day along i 15 west of las vegas as birds fly into concentrated beams of sunlight and are instantly incinerated leaving wisps of white smoke against the blue.

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 that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Ivanpah dry lake calif. Such hapless birds can be burned to death killed by brute force when they. Environmentalists have hit out at a giant new solar farm in the mojave desert as mounting evidence reveals birds flying through the extremely hot thermal flux surrounding the towers are being.