[quantim]

Talk about light pollution, you can see this nasty project halfway across Nevada when flying.

[oldtech]

I’ve never seen it, don’t live anywhere near it, but remember all the talk about it when it was built. Now it looks like most people were pretty assured it would be unsuccessful.

[Thommas]

"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.

[noiseman]

Talk about light pollution, you can see this nasty project halfway across Nevada when flying.

I saw it when flying about 100 miles south of there, and even at that distance it was blinding. Took me a second to realize what it was and I was so shocked at the indescribable intensity that I couldn’t believe that the FAA wouldn’t have been screaming for it to be shut down (I know, I’m not naive about how the bureaucracy likely clamped down on any concerns about it). It was painfully bright even at a hundred miles away, and because of how that technology works it beams light of that intensity in all directions, 360 degrees around the compass, and it’s impossible to prevent it when it’s operating. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would have known that such a technology could never work on a large scale because it would make aviation impossible during daylight hours.