Solar Fields in Place of Cornfields: A Win-Win if There Ever Was One

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Title: Solar Fields in Place of Cornfields: A Win-Win if There Ever Was One

Date: 05-17-2018 04:11 PM

Summary: In a recent article in the Bay Journal, the Chesapeake's monthly environmental newspaper, senior writer Timothy B. Wheeler speculated that that the growth of large-scale solar collection fields on Maryland's Eastern Shore, at the expense of cornfields, might have "unforeseen consequences on land use, local economies, wildlife habitat and maybe even water quality."

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[Hijinx]

This just in from the somd.com Headline News:

Title: Solar Fields in Place of Cornfields: A Win-Win if There Ever Was One

Date: 05-17-2018 04:11 PM

Summary: In a recent article in the Bay Journal, the Chesapeake's monthly environmental newspaper, senior writer Timothy B. Wheeler speculated that that the growth of large-scale solar collection fields on Maryland's Eastern Shore, at the expense of cornfields, might have "unforeseen consequences on land use, local economies, wildlife habitat and maybe even water quality."

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All very good. Only how many birds are scorched by solar fields? How many food products are not grown there? Do we really need more goldenrod and ragweed. Things a lot of people are allergic to. I suppose there are pros and cons to anything, but this article passes over the cons.

 

[transporter]

All very good. Only how many birds are scorched by solar fields? How many food products are not grown there? Do we really need more goldenrod and ragweed. Things a lot of people are allergic to. I suppose there are pros and cons to anything, but this article passes over the cons.

So you hate that people come on here and call you an idiot...yet:

1. You ask how many birds "are scorched" by solar fields?

2. You read a publicity article written to promote solar fields and wonder why there aren't any "cons"?

 

[Gilligan]

1. You ask how many birds "are scorched" by solar fields?

Here, sugar britches, let me help you..

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Here, sugar britches, let me help you..

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html

Not even remotely the same thing. That's a concentrated solar farm

 

[glhs837]

Here, sugar britches, let me help you..

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-deaths-20160831-snap-story.html

Damnit, Gil, dont make me agree with trans ........ The solar fields the author is proposing are not the same sort of solar collector your article was about. Just passive ones like the silly SMECO plant up on Rt 5. Pretty sure you need desert levels of solar energy to make the collector method feasible.

 

[GURPS]

Damnit, Gil, dont make me agree with trans ........

IKR

 

[GURPS]

So you hate that people come on here and call you an idiot ...

Every post you make is against anyone or any group that doesn't conform to your propagandist viewpoints.

I'll Just Leave this Here ....

 

[Gilligan]

Damnit, Gil, dont make me agree with trans ........ The solar fields the author is proposing are not the same sort of solar collector your article was about. Just passive ones like the silly SMECO plant up on Rt 5. Pretty sure you need desert levels of solar energy to make the collector method feasible.

Pretty sure I knew all that... ;-) Tranny didn't make a distinction.

 

[Gilligan]

Not even remotely the same thing. That's a concentrated solar farm

A "solar field"..as it were...that is routinely scorching birds. ;-)

 

[stgislander]

Pretty sure I knew all that... ;-) Tranny didn't make a distinction.

A "solar field"..as it were...that is routinely scorching birds. ;-)

Here... let me take that shovel out of your hands.

 

[Gilligan]

Here... let me take that shovel out of your hands.

Or they just smash themselves to death....which is better.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-farms-threaten-birds/


Psst..be quiet..I'm hunting wahbit.

 

[black dog]

Or they just smash themselves to death....which is better.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-farms-threaten-birds/


Psst..be quiet..I'm hunting wahbit.

My understanding is the ethanol plant a few miles north of me that was built in the middle of farmland has a employee that first thing every morning picks up dead birds and the wind farm just west of me has no such employee..

 

[Chris0nllyn]

A "solar field"..as it were...that is routinely scorching birds. ;-)

Again. No even close.

You can play dumb all you want, but I'm sure you understand that solar panels don't reflect the sun, they harvest sunlight.

 

[Lurk]

Psst..be quiet..I'm hunting wahbit.

By leaving bait for a Ko-Ko?

 

[Hijinx]

Lets cover every field with solar panels. We don't need no stinking corn or soy beans or tomato's or cabbage.

 

[Gilligan]

Again. No even close.

You can play dumb all you want, but I'm sure you understand that solar panels don't reflect the sun, they harvest sunlight.

Or they just smash themselves to death....which is better.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...hreaten-birds/

 

[Gilligan]

About those solar fields....just for Chrissy

One of their main complaints: The vast field of solar panels — which would generate enough electricity to power 230,000 average California homes, according to its developer — would kill birds.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/tech/science/energy/2016/08/17/how-many-birds-killed-solar-farms/88868372/

 

[Chris0nllyn]

Or they just smash themselves to death....which is better.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...hreaten-birds/

Linky no worky.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

About those solar fields....just for Chrissy

https://www.desertsun.com/story/tech/science/energy/2016/08/17/how-many-birds-killed-solar-farms/88868372/

That sure settles it.

Yes, birds have died at solar photovoltaic projects, some of them from crashing into panels or other infrastructure. But there's hardly any science examining how many birds deaths are caused solar farms, and what can be done to stop it.

One PV project that has reported mortality data is Desert Sunlight, a 550-megawatt power plant in eastern Riverside County that was the largest solar project in the world when it opened. A contractor for the project says it documented 173 bird deaths during construction, from August 2011 through December 2014, although it didn't conduct systematic monitoring.

At the same time, it's unclear how many of the birds deaths have actually been caused by solar panels and other electrical infrastructure.

Scientists have estimated that between 365 million and 988 million birds die from crashing into buildings and windows in the United States each year.

A 2013 study found that cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds in the continental United States each year.

In another study led by Walston and published earlier year, Argonne researchers estimated that large solar farms are responsible for somewhere between 37,800 and 138,600 bird deaths in the United States each year. Walston cautioned it's an extremely rough estimate, based on the incomplete and not-necessarily-reliable data that exists for three Southern California solar farms.