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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.
...I'll throw another $168 their way.
SURELY NOT!!!!!
It's all done with smoke and mirrors.
If this were mdsolar it would be "This hot new solar plant is *on fire*!"
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
You mean omellettes?
Archimedes was right! In your face Archimedes deniers!
Would you prefer, "Solar Energy Has its First Chernobyl"?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Come back timothy, all is forgiven!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I don't expect a lot from the editors here,
We have standards and expect you not to exceed them!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
By the way Three Mile Island is safe. I mean, you can walk around. It was almost nasty, but the history with nuclear is unless you're a total idiot nothing bad happens.
Given that the world is full of total idiots in critical jobs, that's a pretty good argument against nuclear power.