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Huge solar plant lags in early production [because there's not enough sunlight!]
AP ^
| November 17, 2014
| MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Posted on 11/18/2014 9:18:06 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The largest solar power plant of its type in the world - once promoted as a turning point in green energy - isn't producing as much energy as planned.
One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn't shining as much as expected.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; energy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hotair; ivanpah; solar; solarfraud; solyndra
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To: Timber Rattler
SHOCKING! Well, maybe not so much. Maybe they shouldn’t try to activate them at night.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:19:52 AM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
To: Timber Rattler
The left will solve the problem by giving the company more grant dollars.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:20:29 AM PST
by
pallis
To: Timber Rattler
shades......of solyndra...
i see a bailout in the offing....
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:20:44 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Timber Rattler
“One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn’t shining as much as expected.”
Somehow this is due to global warming no doubt. /s/
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:21:30 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
To: Timber Rattler
It seems like some of the basic engineering and contingency planning was missed in the development of this site.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:22:30 AM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: Timber Rattler
Operators initially expected to need steam from gas-powered boilers for an hour a day during startup. After operations began, they found they needed to keep boilers running more than four times longer - an average of 4 1/2 hours a day. State energy regulators in August approved the plant's request to increase the natural gas it is allowed to burn by 60 percent.
Paging ManBearPig...
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:22:45 AM PST
by
glock rocks
(Whenever I find myself in a conundrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
To: Timber Rattler
You get more electricity from solar panels by putting Skittles on them and watering with Unicorn pee.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:22:47 AM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Timber Rattler
The sun isn’t shining as much as expected. —
Yeah, the sun is wasting all its sunshine making global warming, not making light.
We need an executive order. SUN: make more light.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:22:56 AM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
To: Timber Rattler
With all this gorebal worming, wouldn’t you think there would be three times the normal sunlight?
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:22:59 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
To: Timber Rattler
The Erf is Doooomed...
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:23:41 AM PST
by
PROCON
(I love sleeping, it's like being dead without the commitment.)
To: Timber Rattler
They should just add some hamster wheel generators to the system.
Those little suckers love to run on their wheels at night.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:23:45 AM PST
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: Timber Rattler
“Fromer said it was surprising that so much additional gas is needed, adding that it “signals to me they have some very large problems that they are going to need to sort out.”
HA!
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:24:25 AM PST
by
MNDude
To: Timber Rattler
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:24:40 AM PST
by
rdcbn
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Listening to some show. Said you will NEVER get the return on solar. I’d call it a scam.
To: Timber Rattler
350,000 mirrors the size of garage doors that need to be kept clean in the dusty desert...now we know why they want amnesty for all those uneducated illegals. .
To: glock rocks
How many people are cleaning the dew, dust and pollen generated SLIME off those mirrors every morning?
Too bad the computer models all “assumed” CLEAN mirrors.
Too bad for our two billion dollars, too!
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:31:27 AM PST
by
pfony1
(Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
To: Timber Rattler
C’mon...what’s $1.6 billion to you anyway? It’s the IDEA that counts.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:31:36 AM PST
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: Sacajaweau
They’ve found a great way to funnel money to their cronies,
and they’re doing it through a way that won’t be questioned by any Democrat voter,
because the motives behind “being green” are never questioned.
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posted on
11/18/2014 9:34:03 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Timber Rattler
Seems like Dick Cheney and his Infernal Weather Machine (trademarked) are up to their old tricks again...
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