[rellimpank]

--the big solar fiasco just south of Las Vegas (Ivanpah)--somewhat further south --has so far experienced a couple of major problems: "the sun hasn't shone enough " and California is about to penaize it because it uses too much natural gas keeping the fluids warm at night.

--but , us taxpayers got to finance it with a little help from Google----

-last I sawit was produciing less than 50% of expected power---

[This_far]

Isn’t that the one that ‘burned itself up’?

Probably harder to clean dead birds off of the reflectors than snow.

anecdotal: I grew up across the lake from Natick Labs, which had one of the first solar furnaces. A small thing but it made big headlines back in the ... late 50’s.

Think I’ll look up the link and post it.