Chemical Engineer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your problem is that you believe everything you read off those green > energy blogs/flyers and believe it is true. > > The original Solar One and Solar Two Power Towers were moth-balled 20 > years ago. > Yes. Things often go wrong with cutting edge technology. Ask Boeing. > BrightSource was Luz2 the reincarnation of Luz1 that went bankrupt in the > late 80's when the government cut their funding back then. > They were driven out of business by political machinations of the power companies and the coal industry. They were forced to build installations that every study showed would be too small. They could have built them 5 times larger and made a profit, but the power companies refused. It was a ploy. - Jed
