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.
“I think this system is modeled on the one in Spain that proved to be unable to sustain itself financially without government subsidies.”
Yes Wildbill. They look very similar. I wondered if the artwork might have been borrowed from the Spanish plant.
I had high hopes too, but learned after having to do a business plan, that Solar cannot be competitive with hydrocarbons or nuclear, and nuclear has no emissions that haven’t been dealt with for over sixty years. The beauty of nuclear “waste” is that radioactive emissions are so easy to see and manage, and because their relative volume is so tiny. Of course for the naïve there are always newspapers to sell because we can easily measure picocuries of isotopes, isotopes that we are exposed to every day by cosmic ray and other natural background radiation.
When Harry Reid can get a few more millions in donations from eco-lawyers by preventing the use of the completed storage facility in Nevada, there will be lots more nonsense about dreaded radioactivity from Fukushima contaminating California. Harry, when he finally retires, can then afford, like Al Gore, to buy that beachfront retreat, where he can watch the Pacific glow at night.