[ckilmer]

All generators which use super heated steam need condensers but you can use air cooled condensers.The tech has improved a lot recently. They look like this.

 

In the first and third pictures above you can see the green trailor-looking buildings with the pipes running into/out of them.
Those are the condensers that help cool/recirculate the water.

[tcrlaf]

And the reflective radiation is having what effect on the environment??

OH WAIT...
We aren’t allowed to ask common sense question about items in the political correctness portfolio, are we??

[Texas Eagle]

Where are the pics of the birds being fried in flight?

[Nifster]

bleeech.... 140,000 households??? As usual California throws good money after bad.

No doubt the bullet train will have a stop at this location

[GraceG]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Chilled water ?

[woofie]

This will cause global warming to melt the icecaps

[molson209]

Is this why California has no water, is it all boiled away ?

[KC_Lion]

[BuffaloJack]

What a butt-ugly eyesore. It’s almost as bad as the windmills.
Who has the window cleaning concession?

[tcrlaf]

Question 3:
Where did they put the coal-fired plant that will power these “140,000 homes” when it is cloudy? Or do they just intend to use diesel-fueled peaker plants for that?

[Texas Eagle]

Big Solar and Avian Mortality

[oldplayer]

Just to think! The wacko environmentalist banned motorcycles from this area just so they could have this giant bird broaster. It really preserved the unspoiled view, didn’t it?

Oldplayer

[ctdonath2]

Solar strip mining.

[tet68]

The caption on that next to last one should be...

“Yes Sir, your table is ready, sit where you like”.

[Dagnabitt]

Experts describe the local bird population as delicious.

[Army Air Corps]

I see gallons of Windex....

[al baby]

I love it drove by a few times just don’t look at the collector it is real bright

[RetiredTexasVet]

Let’s have a little math fun. One gargantuan solar plant will provide power for 140,000 people houses (not businesses or manufacturers) for 2 thirds of a day (the other third is night) which covers approximately 5 square miles. So for the West Coast’s (just Ca, Or & Wa) approximate population of 56 million it would take 400 of these installations and approximately 2,000 square miles to provide the electric for 2 thirds of a day for the West Coast.

Now, about cost ........

[ltc8k6]

Bright Lights, Dim Idea

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/02/bright-lights-dim-idea.php

[Dead Corpse]

Nope. It still looks like an inefficient waste of money...