From the New York Post,
$2.2 billion solar plant in California turned off after years of wasted money: ‘Never lived up to its promises.’
They never do, do they? The entire history of renewable energy is overpromise and underdeliver.
It’s the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Rather than miles of solar panels, it’s fields of mirrors focused on a central pillar to produce heat, and eventually, electricity. It never quite worked out as designed.
Details from the Post,
In 2011, the US Department of Energy under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project.
The Post reports,
Ivanpah was a cutting-edge idea for a while. But, as the market changed, it couldn’t compete with newer and less expensive forms of creating solar power.
“It simply did not scale up. It’s kind of an obsolete technology [that’s] been outpaced by solar photovoltaic technology.”
So, the multi-billion-dollar facility will be shutting down after only 12 years of operation. Birds will be happy,
According to the Association of Avian Veterinarians, the power plant “is believed to be responsible for at least 6,000 bird deaths each year.”
They get fried “if they fly in the area where the reflection is going up to the tower.”
Once hailed as a wonder of the age, it will sail off into the sunset. But all the correct people (except for you) made money on the deal.
