Eagles Killed By Solar Panels

In response to growing accusations from both conservationists and conservatives that renewable energy sources like solar and wind kill too many birds u s.

Eagles killed by solar panels.

For each power source wind solar oil and gas nuclear and coal the data on bird deaths is gathered from. If human life is worth 129 000 per year and coal kills 15 000 people a year in the u s that means the industry gets about 37 billion in death tax credits per year wind s death subsidy is only. The other solar farms analyzed by the investigators were of the newfangled trough and solar. Birds can be killed when they smash into the facility s solar panels the investigation concluded.

At the infamous altamont wind resource area alone more than 2 000 golden eagles have been killed by the wind turbines there. According to the fish and wildlife service as many as 500 golden eagles are killed by collisions with wind towers power lines buildings cars and trucks each year. Yes birds have died at solar farms most famously at the ivanpah project in san bernardino county where birds have been incinerated as they fly through the solar flux reflected by fields of. Okay to kill eagles with wind turbines but not with solar panels or.

This is likely an underestimate because these estimates were based on 51 630 megawatts of installed wind. By stuart kaplow on december 10 2013 posted in sustainability last week the u s. According to a study in the wildlife society bulletin every year 573 000 birds including 83 000 raptors and 888 000 bats are killed by wind turbines 30 percent higher than the federal government estimated in 2009 due mainly to increasing wind power capacity across the nation. Bird scientist shawn smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone the ivanpah solar panel project in california likely kills 28 380 birds annually.

Meanwhile we ve built more wind turbines. News and world report has compiled data on which energy industries are responsible for the most bird deaths every year. Since the diet of bald eagles is primarily fish when wind turbine developers begin constructing wind farms on our coasts or near lakes or rivers the mortality rate for bald eagles will skyrocket.