Posted on 01/16/2020 5:56:18 PM PST by karpov
Government planning and subsidies will make America the worlds green-energy superpower, create millions of jobs, and supercharge the economyor so were told. The reality is closer to Crescent Dunes, a Nevada solar-energy plant that has gone bust after receiving a $737 million federal loan guarantee.
An inconvenient truth is that the sun sets each day, but the Obama Administrations green planners had an app for that. They decided to invest in the Crescent Dunes facility that would use molten salt to store heat from the sun, produce steam, and generate electricity even at night. The utility NV Energy had already agreed to buy the electricity. Government support would carry the project to sunny success.
In September 2011, the Energy Department described how the 110-megawatt facility would be the first of its kind in the United States and the tallest molten salt tower in the world, powering more than 43,000 homes a year. The precedent was Solar Two, a small pilot plant decommissioned in 1999 that had shown it was technically feasible to use molten salt to store and generate power. But in a 2006 report the Energy Department said the 10-megawatt facility was never expected to be a viable commercial-scale plant and, in fact, did not validate economic feasibility.
No worries. Its only taxpayer money, and the feds jumped into Crescent Dunes anyway. The Department of Energy finalized its loan guarantee on Sept. 23, 2011, a week before the federal loan program expired. A month earlier Nevada had approved $119.3 million in tax abatements for Crescent Dunes over 20 years. The plant also received some $140 million in private investment.
Crescent Dunes began by missing the deadline established by its agreement with NV Energy, becoming operational months late.
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Easy for you to say!
Some of us are here for life, we cannot, or do not want to, “Just Move”.
The hope is that Gov. Sisso-Lick and his fellow socialist will have taken too much too quickly, so that the back-lash sees them removed at the next election and their schemes repealed.
Sounds good. As long as society holds up and propane is available, it should be a decent system.
I haven’t studied how it works, or the down side, so others may have some issues I’m not aware of.
Thanks for the mention.
I stayed in Tonopah for about a month on business five years or so ago. I found it to be a strange little town — pure bleakness out on the edge of civilization.
Then there was that crazy sort of ritzy hotel on the downtown strip. It was once the tallest building in Nevada and was renonowned for having hot water and I think an elevator. This was back when Tonopah was a mining boomtown, like maybe in the late 1800s. By the 1970s it was ramshackle and then boarded up, but I think in the ‘90s or early 2000s some enterprising entrepreneur managed to get a state historical grant to spruce it up and make it operational again.
That had happened a few years before I was there. It had a reasonably nice restaurant at its lobby level where we’d eat from time to time.
Here it is, the Mizpah hotel:
https://www.themizpahhotel.com
My timeline was a little off but I was close.
I remember when that eye-sore was being pushed as a great thing.
“JOBS! Lots of JOBS!”
And that was even somewhat true, but only during the construction phase.
So, now that it’s gone bust, will there be LOTS OF JOBS! in dismantling it?
Will it become just another abandoned industrial site to be slowly scavenged by tweakers?
Or will it continue to annoy all who drive by with it’s glare while still roasting birds?
Yep different plant... similar to the one at Stateline in CA...this one is near Tonopah between LV and Reno. The CA stateline one is proforming poorly too.
Yeah, it still had gaming when I was there.
The royalty of Tonopah.
The Station House was very new.
Or to cook mass quantities of bacon. To supply the strategic bacon reserve.
and it thrills me the way that same govt enriches its friends by hundreds of millions......
It could be turned into a low carbon crematorium. Democrats are going to burn somewhere, might as well get cooked off by star power.
I lived at the Tonopah apartments.
Me and a number of USAF, USMC, and USN all playing RADAR on the Range.
Thank you, looked it up in the interim. CA plant is a burden and an eyesore— to everyone and everything, including birds, tortoises, pilots, taxpayers, desert fungi.....
—you are probably thinking of the one south of Vegas near Ivanpah—hasn’t been much in the media about it but a few years ago it was using so much natural gas th keep the fluids warm at night that it had to get an enhanced California emissions permit—
—its other claim to fame is as a bird burner—
Yep, lots of that stuff going on out there. I guess the range was probably the main employer.
>> so whats the result
Sodomites dont generate power
Oh, right, Ivanpah. That’s the one. Thanks.
No Doubt.
We ran two Ford buses a day.
I don’t regret it at all but it was a young man’s game.
I left for PHX soon after.
YUP! It “Flames” the birdies!
Not easy to say and especially not easy to do. But this Sword of Damocles is untenable. Now is the time to start a grassroots movement to stop the madness. I wouldn't want to pack up and move either but the alternative is fight back like your livelihood and life is on the line. These vultures think nothing of picking our bones clean in the name of Climate Change regardless of the carnage.
The hope is that Gov. Sisso-Lick and his fellow socialist will have taken too much too quickly<
Hope is a passive strategy. Time to email and/or phone candidates friendly to the cause of Liberty. Good luck.
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