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obaMao commie solar energy project - uses fossil fuels, burns many birds to death

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  • but, but, "Trump is terrible". How stupid, but obaMao commie can brag about solar energy, right?

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-era-clean-energy-solar-power-plant-still-uses-fossil-fuels-kills-thousands-birds-annually

    "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – More than a decade after it opened, an Obama-era taxpayer-backed "clean energy" solar plant in California still burns fossil fuels and kills thousands of birds each year.

    The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, a massive facility in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border, uses hundreds of thousands of mirrors to reflect sunlight into three towering structures, generating intense heat to produce electricity.

    But those same beams have proven deadly.

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    Federal researchers and monitoring reports have documented thousands of birds being killed after flying through the plant’s concentrated solar rays — a phenomenon known as "solar flux."

    The plant also relies on natural gas to start up each day – producing tens of thousands of metric tons of carbon dioxide annually – an amount comparable to the energy use of thousands of homes, raising questions about how "clean" the facility really is.

    Standing near the site, its footprint is unmistakable. The towers glow intensely as beams of reflected sunlight converge at their tops, creating an almost surreal scene against the desert landscape.

    Once promoted as a symbol of the future of renewable energy, Ivanpah is now drawing scrutiny over whether its environmental costs outweigh its benefits, with critics saying the project raises broader concerns about how "clean energy" is evaluated."

  • from the same site:

    "Bird deaths and wildlife impacts

    The facility spans more than 4,000 acres of the Mojave Desert and uses roughly 350,000 mirrors — mounted on more than 170,000 heliostats — to reflect sunlight toward three central towers.

    That same concentrated light has had unintended consequences.

    Researchers say insects are drawn to the bright towers, which in turn attract birds. Some then fly through the plant’s concentrated solar beams — known as solar flux — where they can be injured or killed.

    Researchers dubbed the phenomenon "streamers," with video released by the U.S. Geological Survey showing birds trailing smoke as their feathers burn."

    "

    The plant has burned natural gas to support daily startup and operations, producing roughly 25,000 to 30,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually — roughly equivalent to the emissions from several thousand U.S. homes.

    That level of emissions is enough to place the plant under California’s cap-and-trade program, which requires major polluters to pay for their emissions — effectively placing the "solar" facility alongside traditional fossil fuel plants when it comes to emissions."

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