Posted on 02/13/2009 12:21:34 PM PST by calcowgirl
What I find interesting about this so called Green Energy facility is what is the efficiency of the plant itself, I mean I dont think moonlight is strong enough to boil water so, I assume this plant is shutdown at night. If the plant is down at night then where will the power come from?
It will be funny when the environmentalist start going at each other over these plants destroying some environmental habitat.
If it works, use it. What the hell.
It's a closed loop system. No significant loss to the outside atmosphere.
No wonder the Austrian needs higher taxes. Only way to honor family commitments...
There's yer answer, Willie! Right there in the last line of the exposed artickle!! Wait till the EnvironMentalistas git aholt of THAT!!!
A non-renewable, non-sustainable resourse being built in as a "back-up!" Scandalous!! And think of the robbery of radiation from the wildlife and the watershed, to say nothing of the desacration of the viewshed from I-15!!!
That sounds similar to the Solar plant at Dagget..just east of Barstow and near the Marine facility.
Large Solar Energy Projects in California
Photos:
Stock Photo - Solar power plant using parabolic through mirrors, Daggett, California
Doesn't show the tower holding the mechanism which the mirrors focus on,.
If Solar is so terrific, how come they closed the Dagget operation?
(I’d never heard of it before, but is the last one shown on your “solar projects” link)
They closed it cause they ran out of subsidy money ....still need that of course.
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