Solar panels can breeding aquatic insects... win, but scientists suggest a simple fix

ScienceDaily (28 May 2010)-solar energy may nature most plentiful and benign source of energy, but shiny dark solar cells can aquatic insects away from critical breeding lure areas, warn scientists from Michigan State University and colleagues.

The use of white grids or other methods to break the polarized reflection of light far less probably makes, however, mayflies and other aquatic insects, eggs on the panels who think that water, the Group discovered you deposit.

This research shows that solar panels are a strong new source of polarized light pollution, the ecological traps for many kinds of insects, created, says Bruce Robertson, researcher at the MSU Kellogg biological station in Hickory corners. "This is the important conservation importance given the radical expansion of solar energy and the strong negative impact of ecological traps on animal populations."

Nonpolarizing know grids, he adds, a novel approach to reduce the attractiveness of a false Habitat by applying what biologists call habitat fragmentation shows. This is usually harmful species an effect, but promises to solve a conservation problem in this case.

Robertson's team estimates that solar cells add white markings could reduce your ability to collect solar energy maybe 1.8 per cent depending on the Strip cover after distance.

Conventional solar cells share a problem with glass-clad buildings and other wide shiny dark surface-even vehicles.Polarized reflected sunlight or in a single, often horizontal plane that is as at least 300 species of insect aligned to the surface of the water see their eggs.

The species Caddis and mayflies error flies glossy dark surfaces for water, set for reproductive failure and are often easy targets for predators, Robertson and Naturschutz.lokalen colleagues mentioned in a recent online article in the magazine population collapse could a result with cascading effects on predators and other types of the food chain.

People recognize usually reflected sunlight as glare that Polarized Sunglasses, by filtering the horizontal waves by vertically polarized lenses surmounted.

Robertson his research in Hungary led scientists E?tv?s University in Budapest and Szent Istv?n University in Bremerhaven, Hungary zugeordnet.Ihre was work by the US Department of energy's Great Lakes bioenergy research center and the Hungarian Science Foundation supports.

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Journal reference:

G?bor Horv?th, Mikl?s Blaho, ?d?m Egri, Gy?rgy Kriska, Istv?n Seres, Bruce Robertson..Erhaltung of reduction of maladaptive attractiveness of solar panels, insects Polarotactic biology, 2010; DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01518.x

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