Anonymous ID: d36f1d Aug. 8, 2022, 12:17 a.m. No.17207764   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8067

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>https://www.sciencealert.com/this-solar-plant-accidentally-incinerates-up-to-6-000-birds-a-year

>Those panels reflect/radiate massive heat.

 

'Solar panels' usually refers to photovoltaic solar arrays. The example you cite is of a solar thermal array. There aren't many of them because they require a very large footprint and use mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a tower. Birds get burned by the intensity of sunlight reflected by the mirrors towards a central focus.

 

From the article you linked:

 

"Unlike typical solar farms that use photovoltaic panels on a large scale, the site at Ivanpah is built on entirely different principles. To catch sunlight, the plant uses 5 square miles (12.9 square kilometres) of giant mirrors that focus beams of concentrated sunlight onto three different 40-storey-tall towers."