Birds Burned By Solar Panels

Feathers at the foot of a wind turbine.

Birds burned by solar panels.

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. The answer is no. This is true whether the technology is photovoltaic panels or solar thermal collectors. First of all there are different types of solar power.

Well it s mainly due to the plant s overall design and location. So why is this happening. 2 9 billion bird deaths linked to solar wind. Bird droppings at the base of a solar panel.

Such hapless birds can be burned to death killed by brute force when they. That s the name given to birds as their feathers ignite mid air after flying through a concentrated beam of sunlight.