Oh there's a surprise.
But it cooks birds way faster than any microwave. NO NUKES! ;)
Totally unexpected.
Lemme guess. They discovered that it doesn’t work very well at night or on cloudy days or certain times of the year.
they’re being put out of business by jet contrails?
Until they can come out with something akin to a laser printer/toner and/or printing process using easy to obtain materials, solar will continue to be a pipe dream...
Was this project SOLD WITH LIES like Obamacare was? Say it ain't so!
Sounds like its a gas-fueled power plant in disguise. Those mirrors and solar boilers are just window dressing. What a lousy boondoggle this is.
That ting is a ugly monstrosity and blinding driving by
In a couple of years when this whole boondoggle gets shut down it will be the headstone to the hubris of the climate change greenies.
This has all the classic hallmarks of a government boondoggle written all over it.
LMAO, who wants to bet it's really more than 4 1/2 hours a day?
Oh really? Liberals are such idiots. Not only is solar power a piss poor choice of energy, utilities have to purchase firm service/energy to back up this interruptible energy source. IOW, not only are you "stupid" taxpayers pissing money away building solar power infrastructure, utilities are forced to purchase back up supplies just in case a cloud gets in the way and the utilities are not getting the forecasted supply requirements needed to meet the sendout.
Why are they having to ‘learn to fly’ with solar plants. Similar plants have been in operation (Spain) for a long time. Efficient mirrors should have been known from the outset of the planning phase. Dust on mirrors should have been known and mitigated in the planning phase. Boiler time?
What kind of clowns are operating this place? You can just bet the kind of analysis that went into the pro formas was just top notch Look who is investing in this (Google). I’m surprised that Zuckerman was not also involved.
You know, with solar and wind being as prevalent as they are, it would seem some pretty good ideas would come forth to glean energy from them.
It sure hasn’t happened yet.
This looks like it’s well on it way to boondoggle hell.
I don’t remember the name of the movie, but there is a release in the past few years that uses one of these types of plants with the high central boiler and fields of mirrors as the setting for a fraudulent plant for the disposal of toxic waste. It all turned out to be a lie. How appropriate.
Since I used to be a window washer, I’m aware of how difficult it is to keep glass clean. Whenever I’d bring this up in discussions, I’d be told it made no real difference.
Well, it’s beginning to look like I was right after all.
Living in the low desert of Southern California, it seems to me the weather this year has been about normal with sunshine almost all of the time.
Interesting how the article does not mention the thousands of birds that are being killed by having their feathers burned off as they mistake the mirror reflections for water. This project is located along one of the major bird migration flyways.
Plus, we have a major drought and water shortage. This is a desert. Yet this project requires huge amounts of water for the boilers.
At lest $1.6 billion and likely a good bit more to generate electricity enough to power 140,000 homes. Just think about how many homes $1.6 billion of natural gas fired turbine generators would supply with electricity. I suspect hundreds of thousands.
I would argue that the project has succeeded wonderfully.
A mirror reflective solar facility was built
The project served well as a series of pipes to convey the money being stolen from the treasury into the foreign accounts of the apparachiks
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise
Everything they do is to facilitate moving money from the treasury
Solar plant footprint 3,200 acres. Anwr footprint 2,000 acres.