Brightsource has done no plant in Spain, get your facts right. No, Ivanpah is their first plant to produce 1 watt of electricity
Don't assume you know what you are talking about just because you are talking On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> First widespread power outage where you can't move the mirrors you melt >> the tower. >> > > Surely you realize that all power plants have emergency power supplies! > The destruction of the emergency supplies is what caused the Fukushima > disaster. It wasn't as if they did not have any way to operate the plant > equipment in the event of an emergency. The Brightsource engineers have > constructed many plants, in Spain and elsewhere. They know what they are > dealing with. They have years of experience operating these plants. If what > you describe is a problem I'm sure they have encountered it, and they know > to defocus the mirrors in the event of a major power failure. > > Do not assume that you are smarter than people who built and operated > billions of dollars worth of equipment over many years. Do not assume that > you see things they have overlooked. That attitude irks me. Amateur critics > often assume they understand potential problems with cold fusion > experiments better than McKubre or Storms. > > - Jed > >
