Holly Crap. Cost? And 140,000 homes? And during sunlight? What the hell 5 sq miles of land. This is a joke! One natural gas fired plant could do twice as much as this and day or night. These damn fools.
One short circuit and the whole damn thing blows up.
“These damn fools.”
Government subsidy, government guaranteed loan, high salaries. You buy and pay for your nice house, buy gold, get a really nice car, then when the project goes bankrupt, which it will if they set things up correctly, the folks at the top keep the car, house, gold, land, personal investments.
Maybe not set for life, but very comfortable after only a few years work.
Rest assured that the guys at Solyndra and A123 Batteries are not working at Wal Mart to make ends meet.
Looking at the construction cost and expected power output, I doubt they’ll power at any commercially acceptable rate, which is the bankruptcy guarantee.