{"id":1997,"date":"2014-08-25T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/2014\/08\/25\/californias-new-solar-power-plant-is-actually-a-death-ray-thats-incinerating-birds-mid-flight-extremetech\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:36:41","slug":"californias-new-solar-power-plant-is-actually-a-death-ray-thats-incinerating-birds-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s new solar power plant is actually a death ray that\u2019s incinerating birds mid-flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Unfortunately, though, anything that happens to wander\u00a0too close to a boiling tower is very rapidly cooked by the focused sunlight. Workers at the Ivanpah solar power plant call these birds \u201cstreamers,\u201d as they ignite in midair and plummet\u00a0to the ground trailing smoke. Federal wildlife investigators said there was, on average, one streamer every two minutes \u2014 or hundreds of thousands of incinerated\u00a0birds per year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/188328-californias-new-solar-power-plant-is-actually-a-death-ray-thats-incinerating-birds-mid-flight\">California\u2019s new solar power plant is actually a death ray that\u2019s incinerating birds mid-flight | ExtremeTech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/188328-californias-new-solar-power-plant-is-actually-a-death-ray-thats-incinerating-birds-mid-flight\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Solar-farm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Import\u00e9 de <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104239776541827516598\/posts\/KNSVp4FGNCq\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Unfortunately, though, anything that happens to wander\u00a0too close to a boiling tower is very rapidly cooked by the focused sunlight. Workers at the Ivanpah solar power plant call these birds \u201cstreamers,\u201d as they ignite in midair and plummet\u00a0to the ground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=1997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}