NBC: Birds singed in midair by a solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert known as "streamers" for the smoke plume they emit viscerally highlight the reality that the quest for energy almost always causes some form of environmental harm, even through technologies considered green and clean.
The same power plant that's creating streamers was nearly derailed due to concerns about its potential impact on habitat for rare desert tortoises, for example. Wind power projects routinely kill birds...