It wasn't free, it cost $2.2 billion and has high construction and maintenance costs. It was primarily not investors that paid for it, it was US taxpayers through a check from Uncle Sam that Financed it.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jojo Iznart <[email protected]> wrote: > The investors invested over 2.2 billion and you're going to shut it down > for some dumb birds (and some desert tortoise). Goodness, even if we take > the hyperbolic, ridiculous estimate of 28,000 bird kills/year - I say "so > what". I can guarantee you, more than 28,000 birds/year die of natural > causes, like starvation, predation, disease and plain old age. > > So, we are going to give up 392MW of free electricity in exchange for > 28,000 stupid dumb birds. The thing is already build and operating and > generating free electricity. Let's not shut it down for some ridiculous > hyper-environmental Illuminati depopulation agenda. > > > > > Jojo > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:14 AM > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Solar Collectors' Avian Threat > > It doesn't count as a bird kill if they vaporize in the air and don't make > it to the ground. > > Honestly, this is an f'd up system. With PV prices plummeting it makes no > sense to put in another albatross like this. > > Feel proud, if you are in the US, you bought it. > > Good movie prop, Sahara 2. > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/brightsource-solar-plant-sets-birds-on-fire-as-they-fly-overhead-1.2739512 >> >> Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a >> name for birds that fly through the concentrated beams of solar energy >> focused upward by the plant's 300,000 mirrors — "streamers," for the >> smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. >> >> Federal wildlife investigators who visited BrightSourceEnergy's >> Ivanpah plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, >> reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging >> California officials to halt the operator's application to build a >> still-bigger version. >> >> The investigators want the halt until the full extent of the deaths >> can be assessed. Estimates per year now range from a low of about a >> thousand by BrightSource to 28,000 by an expert for the Center for >> Biological Diversity environmental group. >> >> <more> >> >> "Streamers" establishes the graphic well. >> >>
