Remember, green energy is "good for the environment"

[GMM]

Does the environment include birds?

Ivanpah Dry Lake, Calif. - 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 BrightSourceEnergy 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.

This post was edited on 8/18 1:01 PM by GMM

solar power plant scorches birds in mid-air

 

[Boiler20]

Chicken Nuggets falling from the sky! What will they think of next?!!!!*

.

 

[BoilerJS]

Re: Chicken Nuggets falling from the sky! What will they think of next?!!!!*

Green????? I've had the same refrigerator for 28 years but it isn't energy efficient. It costs $50.00 per year more to operate thus using more energy. (as advertised by the new refrigerator on it's door)
My sister on the other hand has bought four energy efficient refrigerators in the same time frame. They use less electricity.
Now let's use a little common sense, how much energy did it take to make those three energy efficient refrigerators she had to buy?
I could say the same thing about my 1981 F350 4x4 truck I still use. It gets 11 mpg.
So to be energy efficient I should have bought a new truck every 4-5 years. They get maybe 18 mpg .
How much energy would we have saved? It depends on how much energy it takes to make the 7 vehicles I would have bought. I think I'm ahead of the curve here.

 

[beardownboiler]

Re: Chicken Nuggets falling from the sky! What will they think of next?!!!!*

Originally posted by Boiler20:
.

The soak . . er . .post of the year!