Burning birds

[MartG]

An unexpected downside to large solar power plants....

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

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2014/08/...

So it's not only windymills that kill birds

[MartG]

ATG said:

More to the point, who cares? Does it matter if a few birds go up in smoke? Don't think there's much evidence that birds get shredded by wind farms, but even if there was, do we really care?

Many people do care - ironically often the same people who support solar/wind power as they also care about the environment