Birds Vaporizing – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:13:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Birds Vaporizing – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Giant Solar Power Plants Don’t Need To Vaporize Birds https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/20/giant-solar-power-plants-dont-need-to-vaporize-birds/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/20/giant-solar-power-plants-dont-need-to-vaporize-birds/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:13:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22045 Continue reading Giant Solar Power Plants Don’t Need To Vaporize Birds →]]> We often hope, even assume, that technology will fix our problems. We also know that sometimes technology creates a problem. In this case, technology can help us fix the problem of needing to keep the fossil carbon in the ground by making use of the sun, but created the problem of vaporizing birds with intensely focused solar energy. But then, the engineers applied adjustment to the technology to save the birds!

I wrote it up here on 10,000 Birds, where I write a monthly installment on birds and stuff: Solar Plant Stopped Killing Birds: One Weird Trick!

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