@ 2.2 Billion dollars and Californians are paying for it in the electricity rates.
OH MY GOD!!! Their killing the Desert Tortoise!!!
Don’t you dare ride your motorcycle, ATV or dune buggy in the desert, only green energy boondoggles are allowed to destroy the environment! It’s for gaia you know, and only greedy eco nazis know how to use America’s natural resources, all you lowly peons Eff off!
There are three of them idiotic things....
Kirtland AFB in ABQ, NM built one of these in the 60’s for testing purposes. The rays would melt 1/2 thick iron plates. Birds flew into the beam and were vaporized.
I think they shelled out $40,000 at the time.
Direct solar works like a charm. Only can be used in situations like this though but it kicks in when it is needed.
I drove by those today in nasty traffic leaving Las Vegas. Couldn’t help but stare at the reflected sunlight from the three posts. Nearly got into an accident.
I wonder how much fossil fuels they used in constructing this thing.
Some guy wanting to build a garden shed on his own property there would have to spend thousands of dollars greasing the palms of local planning commisions and environmental impact studies but this monstrosity gets billions in tax dollars.
Oh, I thought a solar pant was something Michelle or Hillary, with their . . . ER . . . Oversized posteriors could wear to be . . . ER, green. . . Ya know, hook up to the grid. . .
I think this system is modeled on the one in Spain that proved to be unable to sustain itself financially without government subsidies.
I sincerely had high hopes for solar energy as a major supplier of electricity after reading all the hype about the Spanish installation.
I hope this installation has learned from the past and will work better—and not wind up blinding pilots and migratory birds or something.
an NRG, GooGle and ‘Brightsource’ project as I recall.. doe subsidied and Kennedy sold..