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1 posted on 02/13/2014 10:48:49 PM PST by grundle
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Ivanpah fried chicken.... we do it right.... the only fried chicken.... from sunlight...


2 posted on 02/13/2014 11:14:00 PM PST by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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Calfifornia where liberals panic about heating the atmosphere ... and so, to make electricity for their many electrical/electronic appliances, they *super*-heat the atmosphere.


5 posted on 02/13/2014 11:29:21 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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does it produce power at night? If not, then it’s billions of wasted dollars


6 posted on 02/13/2014 11:34:07 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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I wonder how much tax money went into this?


7 posted on 02/13/2014 11:35:06 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: grundle

Looks like a multimillion dollar drive-in movie.

I sure hope that Pelosi flies over it to inspect it.

Now that is one bird I’d like to see fried. Nasty old vulture.


15 posted on 02/14/2014 12:10:09 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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I lived though this nonsense as a young starry-eyed engineering student in the late-70s, when Jimmy Carter had proclaimed that “energy is the moral equivalent of War.” I had figured it out by the time I graduated in the early 80s. I lived through a period of uneconomic alternative energy schemes subsidized by the government once, and have not at all enjoyed getting to see it come to pass once again in my lifetime. Especially since I’m more aware of the graft aspect on this go around.

This thing is a boondoggle.


17 posted on 02/14/2014 12:13:34 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Of course this isn’t a problem for the spotted owl...


21 posted on 02/14/2014 12:41:52 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: grundle

Wait until the next hail storm.


22 posted on 02/14/2014 12:52:10 AM PST by chemicalman (The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
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To: grundle

Idiots!.....The birds are drinking the windex and choking on paper towels.


31 posted on 02/14/2014 3:04:55 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: grundle

Bookmark.


34 posted on 02/14/2014 4:01:45 AM PST by SunTzuWu
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Birds. If the wind generators don’t get them, the solar array will.


37 posted on 02/14/2014 4:11:52 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: grundle

Yesterday’s thread on the topic (different news source, not duplicate)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3122668/posts

Includes some more pictures


39 posted on 02/14/2014 5:11:50 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: grundle
In the summer of 1977 I was at Kirkland AFB, New Mexico, with ROTC. During that visit I got to see a test at Sandia Labs where they were testing the ability to focus sunlight from multiple mirrors on a tower. As part of the test they first focused on a point a few feet to the right of the target on the tower. While focused on that point a bird flew the hot spot - instant roosting! So this has been known for a long time!
44 posted on 02/14/2014 6:03:16 AM PST by MrTed ("...at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow...", when one 1st does it makes an eternal difference!)
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Powers 140,000 homes. Except for the 67% of the time when the sun doesn’t shine or shine brightly enough.

And given 132,452,405 housing units in the U.S., it’d take only about 1,000 more of these 33% efficient plants covering 5,000 square miles of the U.S. at a cost of only two trillion dollars. All in all, quite doable. IF you are a “Progressive” who graduated in Lesbian Dance Theory and believe in the economic and scientific nature of Unicorn and Rainbow power.


45 posted on 02/14/2014 7:57:28 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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