A Differnt Kind of Streamer

[rushmc 23]

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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

Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/emerging-solar-plants-scorch-birds-mid-air-25017031

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[GeorgiaDon 379]

Renewable energy, and all-you-can-eat! What's not to love?

Don

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“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats)

[winsor 236]

  rushmc

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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

Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/emerging-solar-plants-scorch-birds-mid-air-25017031

This conjures up imagery befitting Matt Groening.

[billvon 3,073]

>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.

That's pretty cool.

[ryoder 1,590]

  GeorgiaDon

Renewable energy, and all-you-can-eat! What's not to love?

Don

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[normiss 854]

I still don't understand why people pronounce turbine as turban.

[rhaig 0]

  GeorgiaDon

Renewable energy, and all-you-can-eat! What's not to love?

Don

add a wind farm and maybe we can get it pre-sliced?

--
Rob

[billvon 3,073]

>I still don't understand why people pronounce turbine as turban.

And people still spell "fermentor" as "fermenter" when talking about the vessel used to ferment something. People these days . . .

[billvon 3,073]

>add a wind farm and maybe we can get it pre-sliced?

And add a duck blind and you can get a little extra income. (And they're easier to see with the smoke trail.)

[normiss 854]

It drove me nuts when working in power gen.
I don't hear it said that way in regards to aircraft turbines, yet it's the same damn thing.

[Arvoitus 1]

I knew it. Damn mythbusters just didn't try hard enough with their archimedes death ray.

Your rights end where my feelings begin.

[airdvr 210]

Alfred Hitchcock would have loved it.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[rushmc 23]

  Arvoitus

I knew it. Damn mythbusters just didn't try hard enough with their archimedes death ray.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[lawrocket 3]

Has anyone here ever seen these towers when they are lit up? Flying out of Vegas last year two of them were operating. It was awesome to behold - those things glowing. From 60-100 miles away and in the air they just looked like brute-force machines. I don't thiink that area has seen anything that hot and bright since they ere testing nukes in the early 60s.

Singe birds? Yeah - I could totally see that. This makes the Vdara hotel death ray look like an arctic blast.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[kallend 2,106]

  normiss

I still don't understand why people pronounce turbine as turban.

/lowres.cartoonstock.com/environmental-issues-wind_turbines-environmentalist-wind_farm-turbans-religious_headgears-akln333_low.jpg

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[normiss 854]

Awesome!

[skydiver30960 0]

This thread is useless without video.

Elvisio "eject! eject! oh wait..." Rodriguez