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The impact of a 'trough' Concentrated Solar Power facility on birds and other animals in the Northern Cape, South Africa
The environmental impacts of solar power generation and particularly Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) are not well understood. There have been reports of birds injured and killed by concentrated solar radiation at power 'towers' and from collisions with mirrors at both tower and 'trough' facilities. T...
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Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
2017
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