Posted on 04/12/2025 5:43:57 PM PDT by george76
That’s what these cost before the kick backs, what about actually cost?
Nothing will grow there for decades if they were already installing panels.
Just subtract the cost for the Kenyan snake’s 5 mansions.
Sorta like Solyndra.
Some buddies made money. Now they’re moving on to the next thing.
It's arid desert, not farmland. Nothing grows there. You can't ruin desert.
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The Ivanpah Solar Plant is a textbook example of government waste. A $1.6B loan guarantee from the Obama-era DOE, plus $600M in tax credits, burned taxpayer cash on a project that underperformed and incinerated thousands of birds annually.
Now it’s shuttering a decade early while PV solar dominates the market. This isn’t “green energy” progress—it’s a $2.2B monument to bureaucratic incompetence.
Real solutions require market-driven innovation, not political pet projects that torch both wildlife and your wallet.
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Another ‘Green New Deal Scam’ that stole our tax $.
Solyndra on big time steroids.
BTW, those aren’t solar panels. They are mirrors which are designed to focus the rays from the Sun on that central tower.
Pipes carry the heated water(steam) from the towers back to a turbine which is hooked up to a generator.
Each mirror has to have a positioning motor drive system which aligns the mirror with the Sun’s rays and tower. All very expensive and now, all a waste.
How many more MILLION$/BILLION$ to CLEAN UP????
How can solar power fail in the California-Nevada desert where it is sunny 360 days a year?
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Based on regional climate data from NOAA’s Comparative Climatic Data and Western Regional Climate Center, the Mojave Desert averages around 310 sunny days per year (clear or partly cloudy).
Did not know where it was located.
Sheesh what a boondoggle
Eventually, archeologists in the future will decide it was the temple of a long lost Solar cult...
Our money just gone.
It had a good location for incoming solar energy availability.
A massive experiment.
Too bad it can't at least limp along until it is fully depreciated from valuable output.
That being said, there is one Death Valley livin' woman who wants to recycle some of those mirrors to keep her abode cooler during the hot season:
"Should I Cover My Shack With Mirrors From the Decommissioned Ivanpah Solar Farm to Reflect the Heat?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAINB0I_Unw?
Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch quota boy and fake intellect, couldn’t make a light bulb light given a battery, wires, and the bulb. He sooooo fit the DemocRAT party. But wait, there’s more like him. Much more. So goes the result of our modern ‘kolleges’.
Related, I wish the government would give or sell those mirrors and drive systems (similar to telescopes).
You could hook a couple of them up to a Sterling engine ( or one for each mirror) and it could drive a generator .
A very cheap electricity generator for home use with minimal maintenance. If you add a Helix wind systems generator you could put the whole thing in a 5 foot x 5 foot area and generate power with both wind and sunshine.
Helix wind systems are like those artistic wind yard decorations. Cylindrical in shape (kind of like a drill bit) they make no noise, they don’t kill birds, and you can stack them any way you want. Minimal space required.
The only expensive part of all this is the battery storage system.
I’m surprised it lasted this long. Most of the solar companies he gave taxpayer money to failed or went bankrupt within a short time.
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