Posted on 02/13/2014 11:39:17 AM PST by Uncle Chip
The world's largest solar plant of its kind, set to produce 400 megawatts of energy for homes in southwest U.S. has been switched on today.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which covers five square miles of the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border, has formally opened after years of regulatory and legal tangles ranging from relocating protected tortoises to assessing the impact on Mojave milkweed and other plants.
The $2.2billion complex sees more than 300,000 gigantic mirrors reflect green solar power to three generating units with boilers placed on towers rising 460ft above the desert.
Ivanpah, a joint project uniting NRG Energy Inc., Google Inc. and BrightSource Energy, can produce enough electricity to power 140,000 homes.
Larger projects are on the way, but for now, Ivanpah is being described as a marker for the United States' emerging solar industry.....
Ivanpah can be seen as a success story and a cautionary tale, highlighting the inevitable trade-offs between the need for cleaner power and the loss of fragile, open land. The California Energy Commission concluded that while the solar plant would impose 'significant impacts on the environment ... the benefits the project would provide override those impacts.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
SOLAR PANELS ARE FRYING BIRDS ALONG MAJOR MIGRATION PATH
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/12/Oops-Solar-Energy-Plants-are-Killing-Rare-birds
Brightsource.. One of the Kennedys is knee deep in this venture. No wonder Teddy fought the wind farm off the cape, to many dead seagull carcasses washing ashore at the estate. Acorn, tree, nut, job.
140,000 homes
And 2.2 billion would power those homes for how long?
Giant bird zappers, courtesy of the Green movement.
until the sun goes down.
$2.2 billion invested in nuke power plant powers how many homes 24hrs/365 days?
I drove by it yesterday. It lies between Stateline, Nev. and Mountain Pass, Calif.
Hey, Kentucky Fried Chicken could capitalize on this by setting up nets. Electrifried Chicken. No oil needed, 40% less calories.
That’s at maximum output of the units installed.
Big Blow throws out numbers like that, leaving out the part where they only average about 12% of intalled capacity
another solyndra about to hit the fan...
FR: Giant glass orb could replace the solar panel
Somewhere around 1,000 years.
They should call it KENNEDY Fried Chicken. Boot licking’ good.
You couldn’t have picked a better location — but look at how many acres that takes up and 300,000 garage sized mirrors.
What can go wrong???
It is the world’s largest Eagle Oven.
How many US Tax Payer dollars are invested in this project?
I don’t see how NRG Energy Inc., Google Inc. and BrightSource Energy could be funding this entire project.
Don’t you think their money could have been better in vested in a coal or nuclear plant?
I’ll bet they will have a full time crew scouring the grounds daily for aviary accidents, burnt birds, and condor crashes digging a lot of holes out there.
Everything you can imagine and more could go wrong.
From killing birds to crashing jumbo jets flying across America.
Don’t see why they don’t build nuclear, coal or gas power generating plants that would have almost no risk to the environment nor cause a disaster.
They are surprised that their brainchild roasts birds. I could have told them that. Obviously they knew about it, and went ahead with the project anyway.
Straight out of the movie Sahara.
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