Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Nevada

RayTomes writes "The Obama administration has provided a loan guarantee of $737 million to construct the first large-scale solar power plant that stores energy and provides electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." This solar power project, a heliostat rather than a photovoltaic system, with a molten salt system to store power as heat for times when the sun isn't shining, will be constructed in Nevada and, says the article, is expected to create "600 construction jobs and 45 permanent positions."

Comments

Re:Haven't we learned anything?

[dainbug]

Yeah, but when metal spoons explodes (like they do all the time)....you can just walk over and pick up the pieces.....right then, no need to evacuate for 500 years.

Re:About $10K per home

[Anonymous Coward]

They are over nine thousand dollars.

Re:Amazing,

[Errol backfiring]

Yep. But it's a gamble.

Re:Why does this cost 3/4 of a billion dollars?

[Sloppy]

A lot of it is probably insurance. Nobody really wants to be liable for the costs of a solar spill.

And then there's the extra construction cost, due to the workers all having to wear SPF 5000 sunscreen. Extra security, because of all the monotheists who will be protesting the false god Apollo. Fuel costs. MirrorUniverseWalls. You can't imagine all the expensive problems involved in a project like this.