Recent news reports that a giant solar power plant in the mojave desert is scorching birds in mid air spurred a fierce debate over the environmental impacts of renewable energy and left us all.
Scorched birds from solar panels.
Horror at the world s largest solar farm days after it opens as it is revealed panels are scorching birds that fly over them the ivanpah solar electric generating system the world s largest solar.
But that hypothesis is from a human perspective.
Ten of thousands of birds flying over california are being scorched to death each year by powerful sun beams from the world s largest solar plant.
Though damage to the solar panels is minimal officials.
This is even a problem for solar panel facilities which see up to 138 000 bird deaths per year in the us from collisions with equipment.