Posted on 03/19/2014 11:09:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
How much heat is generated/reflected by this “farm”? What is the environmental impact? Any wildfires being sparked?
It doesn’t look like there’s much vegetation around there to incinerate anyway.
More $$$ to fix a problem caused by an unnecessary project to begin with.
I imagine there have been a few rear-end collisions on Interstate 15 because of that facility as well.
They do incinerate birds. Perhaps the fried birds can be fed to the homeless.
Glare being the “unintended consequence” of 173,500 large mirrors. Does anybody me remember that the operators wanted to change this plant to an array or low cost Chinese solar panels but DOE forced them to continue with their original plan and build it this way?
Dennis prager had a guest a few years ago. She said it would take a seven sq mile solar facility to replace one nuclear reactor
Wonder how much it costs to keep the mirrors clean.
So a few planes go down. Forward!
Obama shall pen an EO providing a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens who volunteer seven years of labour keeping the panels clean and polished.
Wonder if they can aim it? Might come in handy if we are ever attacked by space aliens or a colony of giant ants.
Uuummm Ray Bans?
The mirrors can be aimed to track sun position, but probably couldn’t tilt down to ground level. If we get attacked by giant killer pigeons, on the other hand...
I have read stories that this altar to green technology is roasting birds who inadvertently fly over the place.
So, you see, environmental nazi only are concerned with the welfare of wildlife when it comes to projects that affect Conservatives, otherwise they are perfectly willing to roast birds or let windmills kill bald eagles.
That unnecessary project puts money in the pockets of the lobbyists and congress critters that approved that boondoggle.
I was stationed on Kure Atoll Coast Guard Loran Station in the middle of the Pacific. We had 3 generators with their exhaust and mufflers on the roof of the power building. In the salt air those things rusted pretty fast so I asked for some special paint, basically liquid chrome. When the next C 130 logistics flight came in the pilots said they could see the sun’s reflection off of those mufflers for miles and were wondering what that was. I can imagine what these huge mirrors are doing.
“I imagine there have been a few rear-end collisions on Interstate 15 because of that facility as well.”
I have not seen the articles that report that the facility is causing blinding reflecting light on I-15.
That is just horrible and much worse than even blinding pilots.
The glare is really bad from both the air and ground. I’m a pilot, but not commercial, and I thought it was a concern when I’ve viewed it from both on multiple occasions. It is a definite hazard IMHO.
We have gone by a few times it is like an arc welder in a dark garage
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