[Willies Revenge]

What I find interesting about this so called “Green Energy” facility is what is the efficiency of the plant itself, I mean I don’t 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.

[SierraWasp]

"A BrightSource spokesman said the company may add small gas-fired generators at the sites for use at night and during heavy cloud cover."

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!!!

[Carry_Okie]

Making money in a regulated energy business has NOTHING to do with providing a product efficiently, especially in the case of Southern California Edison. It's a long post, but it explains how we got into this mess.