Solar Energy has Little Impact on Birds
People are not worried about the pollution coming from the renewable energy sources, because most of them do not produce significant amounts of pollution. The supplies, the process of how the supplies come to the source and the demolishing machines used to erect these renewable energy sources are the true culprits wreaking havoc environmentally. For instance, older wind turbines have a negative effect on bird populations.
Studies Involving Birds
The massive solar power plant in Boulder City, Nevada scheduled for completion by the year 2030, will power 40,000 houses, and closely mimics the California Mojave Desert Solar Power Plant, which has produced billions of hours of energy directly from the sun. The birds studied in the Mojave Desert around the California solar energy plant, mainly died to colliding with the structures, mirrored surfaces. The estimated numbers have no real significant impact on the bird population. The studies show in the period of a week, there were about two birds killed from colliding with the structures at the solar energy plant.
More Acres are needed to run a Hydro or Coal Power Plant than a Solar Power Plant
Although utilizing large amounts of land to harness the solar energy we need for power, it is still a greater benefit to us than the current system we use for energy. The tremendous amount of water and land used for energy, which is required to sustain the population now, is much more traumatic, environmentally than using the large amounts of land for harnessing solar energy. A hydro power plant or coal power plant uses more land required for sustaining operations than a solar power plant. Sustaining a comparable solar power plant to that of a coal or hydro plant is only 2,540 acres.
The alternative is far worse on the environment, harvesting energy sources using the strip mining methods for coal and oil sands. Decreased needs for the destructive methods of strip mining in the mountains, helps the environment.
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