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Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org)
An anonymous reader writes:"The world's largest solar plant just torched itself," read the headline at Gizmodo, reporting on a fire Thursday at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Built on 4,000 acres of public land in the Mojave Desert, the $2.2 billion plant "has nearly 350,000 computer controlled mirrors -- each roughly the size of a garage door," according to the Associated Press, which reports that misaligned mirrors focused the sunlight on electrical cables, causing them to burst into flames, according to the local fire department. The facility was temporarily shut down, and the fire damaged one of the facility's three towers, according to the Associated Press, while another tower is closed for maintenance, "leaving the sprawling facility on the California-Nevada border operating at only a third of its capacity."
The New York Times reported that by 2011 Google had invested $168 in the facility.
The New York Times reported that by 2011 Google had invested $168 in the facility.
Before complaining about it, learn how a loan guarantee is different from a loan.
Better yet, complain about what "useful things could have been funded" with a small fraction on what's been spent on the US Military since the fall of the USSR or why the auto companies aren't required to pay back the gov't in full for getting their asses bailed out.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Greens still believe the conspiracy theory that "capitalism" is the main reason they can't have free and clean energy. Most of them truly are naive morons.