bird abatement [RE-wrenches]

[Peter Duchon]

While installing solar streetlighting units this issue has come up often
along the coast.   We have seagulls and crows.

Here's a good product that you can adhere to the top edge of a tilted
module's frame (or row) with a good tube glue/adhesive caulk. Run a bead in
the glue trough on the back of the product and schwack on carefully, may
require clamping.   You can also affix with screws.

http://www.birdbgone.com/birdspike2000.htm

I believe the taller edge is more attractive for sitting, wherever modules
are tilted, so don't know about effectiveness of product for flat or min.
tilt flat-roof applications.   

Can't do much about the fly-over bombing runs, however, there may be an
audible deterrent solutions that will steer birds from flying through the
system owner's airspace?   

Here are some visual deterrents.   I like the umbrellas but wonder if these
dangly deterrents and the small shadow they would create would be just as
bad, but I think less than fried-on bird droppings
.
http://www.flybye.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=8

Peter Duchon
ASAP POWER!
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Caldwell [mailto:solarcowboy at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 12:11 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: bird abatement [RE-wrenches]


Wrenches,

We're planning a project which will be on the waterfront here in San
Francisco.  The building on which the array is to be installed is covered
with a large amount of bird droppings - and this project is to be a PPA, so
system performance is crucial.  Does anyone have experience installing
pigeon spikes or employing any other methods to keep birds from mucking up
arrays?

Cheers,
Jerry Caldwell
Recurrent Energy



















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