No robo-washers on those mirrors. Let's say $100 per auto robo cleaner x 374,000 = $37,400,000 upgrade. You can hire a lot of sharecropper squeegie guys for that price.
PV don't need no operators, no control room, no 40 story tower, no steam turbine, no steam boiler, no package boiler for nightime, no piping, no pumps, no coolers, no 375,000 motors in the desert sand and heat turning mirrors, no UPS, no diesel generator backup power, no $2.2B in your capital. and would be up and running at least a year earlier with much less maintenance (no moving parts), Downside of PV is no road-kill burnt bird cafe option Next step will be BrightSource trying to go public again. Since US is the only customer, might as well sell them the company! Venture capitalists would love to extract from this albatross. Then the taxpayer ruse will be complete. It will look impressive in the next Hollywood movie though. 400 MW Natural Gas plant would cost $400M VS. $2.2b with much less equipment and would generate CO2 to feed the trees. :) BTW it is all of our microwave radars killing biology around us, not global warming. Dinosaurs liked it hot. Just my take on it. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > See: > > > http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/the-ivanpah-solar-electric-generating-system/100692/ > > Lots of pictures. Be sure to see the ones of the control room and the > control computer screen. > > I do get sense this resembles a Zeppelin. Look at books and posters from > the 1930s and you see that the Zeppelin was a symbol of the future. It > turned out to be a symbol of the past, like one of those streamlined steam > engines from that era. See: > > http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=325 > > - Jed > >
