Not when all the mirrors are made by the Koch brothers and it's smashed up and taken offline less than a decade after it's brought online so they can build a newer one with a different contractor.
They also keep it at temp with natural gas at night so it doesn't have to heat up in the morning which kinda defeats the purpose.
Yeah, it was a cool idea I guess. Just absolutely terrible in terms of execution and maintenance. It's basically a gadgetbahn that pretends to be carbon neutral while barely offsetting its own carbon cost.
Ivanpah is depressing too. Just a massive garbage patch in the middle of the desert. You can see the degredation across the images.
Just built then cast off to build a new one just down the road a few years later.
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Not when all the mirrors are made by the Koch brothers and it's smashed up and taken offline less than a decade after it's brought online so they can build a newer one with a different contractor.
They also keep it at temp with natural gas at night so it doesn't have to heat up in the morning which kinda defeats the purpose.
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Yeah, it was a cool idea I guess. Just absolutely terrible in terms of execution and maintenance. It's basically a gadgetbahn that pretends to be carbon neutral while barely offsetting its own carbon cost.