Birds Burned Solar Panels

So why is this happening.

Birds burned solar panels.

This is even a problem for solar panel facilities which see up to 138 000 bird deaths per year in the us from collisions with equipment. A macabre fireworks show unfolds each day along i 15 west of las vegas as birds fly into concentrated beams of sunlight and are instantly incinerated leaving wisps of white smoke against the blue. Bird barrier offers a solar panel protection kit to prevent birds from getting under the panels. The sight of a bird being fried to death is so common at the ivanpah solar plant in california s mojave desert that workers have nicknamed the smouldering birds streamers because they leave tiny wisps of white smoke behind as they burn up in the sky.

Though damage to the solar panels is minimal officials. The third facility studied was the ivanpah solar electric generating system in bernardino county calif where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off.