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    Smoked bird.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/emerging-s...2.html#yG4Nofv



    Now that's a side effect I hadn't anticipated.

    Ho hum.

    That doesn't work any more, so here's the Wail instead:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/...s-mid-air.html

    Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air
    The said unfortunate birds are called "streamers".
    Last edited by zeitghost; 6 June 2017, 11:07.

    #2
    Just like the death ray building in London, except that did it to people walking past Maplins...

    Walkie Talkie building in London to have 'death ray' problem fixed - Home News - UK - The Independent

    a temperature reading on the street outside was over 90 Celsius.
    I'm Spartacus.

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      #3
      Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
      https://uk.news.yahoo.com/emerging-s...2.html#yG4Nofv



      Now that's a side effect I hadn't anticipated.

      Ho hum.
      yep, if shell or BP killed as many birds as windfarms or solar, there would be uproar
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        #4
        I sort of assumed they had bird scarers, dead birds falling on expensive mirrors were an obvious hazard of these types of solar plants.
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Originally posted by vetran View Post
          I sort of assumed they had bird scarers, dead birds falling on expensive mirrors were an obvious hazard of these types of solar plants.
          what we need is someone to come along with fifty thousand links to explain why cats are the real problem
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