Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Aug 22, 2014 9:42:29 GMT -5
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We don’t blame you. We were just as confused when we read a report that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service wants a toll of dead birds recorded for a full year over parts of southern California’s Mojave Desert. That’s where a massive solar plant, BrightSource Energy, has encountered toasted, roasted, fried, stewed, baked and cremated birds that have flown through the plant’s sun rays, have ignited in mid-air, and have puffed into smoke trails called “streamers” at a rate estimated to be about one bird every two minutes. But, who’s counting?
Apparently two groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Audubon Society, are keeping track of the burning birds, estimated by BrightSource to be from 1000 per year to the CBD’s count of 28,000. An official of the Audubon Society’s renewable energy platform calls the bird kills “alarming” and adds that “there needs to be some caution.” Really?
We agree. But we hark back to the days when the USFWS banned lead shot from waterfowl hunters and, more recently, California environmental groups who now want all lead ammo banned for fear that raptors and some other carrion-eating species might pick up lead poisoning from gut piles of dead deer and other game.
We’re fans of solar energy and can’t wait for the day when retractable car-top sun roofs are actually solar panels designed to keep battery powered cars from taking a beating but keep on ticking. Just as wind farms help provide electrical energy despite murdering our iconic national bird by the dozens on their annual migration routes, there are some areas of the country famous for nothing except wind and plenty of it. Palm Springs, CA and southern Wyoming come immediately to mind.
But while songbirds don’t get the same fame as eagles, doves, ducks, geese and other flying fowl, frying them mid-flight does seem a bit drastic.
www.gunproplus.com/lead-cats/
The BrightSource plant, located in the Mojave Desert at the Ivanpah Dry Lake site is a partnership of three companies, BrightSource Energy, NRG Solar of Carlsbad, CA and Google Green. Yeah, that Google, the one who won’t take guns or ammo ads because they kill people. Birds, they’re expendable.
www.gunproplus.com/lead-cats/
We don’t blame you. We were just as confused when we read a report that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service wants a toll of dead birds recorded for a full year over parts of southern California’s Mojave Desert. That’s where a massive solar plant, BrightSource Energy, has encountered toasted, roasted, fried, stewed, baked and cremated birds that have flown through the plant’s sun rays, have ignited in mid-air, and have puffed into smoke trails called “streamers” at a rate estimated to be about one bird every two minutes. But, who’s counting?
Apparently two groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Audubon Society, are keeping track of the burning birds, estimated by BrightSource to be from 1000 per year to the CBD’s count of 28,000. An official of the Audubon Society’s renewable energy platform calls the bird kills “alarming” and adds that “there needs to be some caution.” Really?
We agree. But we hark back to the days when the USFWS banned lead shot from waterfowl hunters and, more recently, California environmental groups who now want all lead ammo banned for fear that raptors and some other carrion-eating species might pick up lead poisoning from gut piles of dead deer and other game.
We’re fans of solar energy and can’t wait for the day when retractable car-top sun roofs are actually solar panels designed to keep battery powered cars from taking a beating but keep on ticking. Just as wind farms help provide electrical energy despite murdering our iconic national bird by the dozens on their annual migration routes, there are some areas of the country famous for nothing except wind and plenty of it. Palm Springs, CA and southern Wyoming come immediately to mind.
But while songbirds don’t get the same fame as eagles, doves, ducks, geese and other flying fowl, frying them mid-flight does seem a bit drastic.
www.gunproplus.com/lead-cats/
The BrightSource plant, located in the Mojave Desert at the Ivanpah Dry Lake site is a partnership of three companies, BrightSource Energy, NRG Solar of Carlsbad, CA and Google Green. Yeah, that Google, the one who won’t take guns or ammo ads because they kill people. Birds, they’re expendable.
www.gunproplus.com/lead-cats/