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To: quantim
"The Ivanpah plant was a financial boondoggle and environmental disaster,"

A true statement. However, the first time I saw it while driving past into Las Vegas, I found it to be visually stunning.

Coming out of a row of hills late in the afternoon, the sun's rays, captured by thousands of mirrors were reflected
through the valley dust to create an otherworldly vision.

All-in-all, this was a pretty expensive artistic presentation.

8 posted on 02/09/2025 6:02:13 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: Thommas; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin; Kaslin; PJ-Comix; Lazamataz

That “shining beauty” of reflected light scattered away from the focus points on the three towers like a flat pond in the desert IS the seductive danger to every one of the (tens of thousands) of the birds fried as vere off seeking water.

The birds are heated, then burned into smoking remnants as they dive down towards what think is water below them. Theese dozens of smoke threads are seen every hour during daylight.

The complex is expensive, doesn’t roduce as power as it was advertised, fails frequently for repairs, and needs regularly to use natural gas as a backup.


17 posted on 02/09/2025 8:13:21 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Thommas; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; BenLurkin; Kaslin; PJ-Comix; Lazamataz

That “shining beauty” of reflected light scattered away from the focus points on the three towers like a flat pond in the desert IS the seductive danger to every one of the (tens of thousands) of the birds fried as vere off seeking water.

The birds are heated, then burned into smoking remnants as they dive down towards what think is water below them. Theese dozens of smoke threads are seen every hour during daylight.

The complex is expensive, doesn’t roduce as power as it was advertised, fails frequently for repairs, and needs regularly to use natural gas as a backup.


18 posted on 02/09/2025 8:13:23 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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