It's ALREADY BUILT!!!! In a sense, what comes out of it is FREE. The 2.2 billion is already sunked down costs. That can't be recovered. The price has already been PAID, and you want to shut it down for some dumb birds? Do you have a better soluition for our energy needs?
So, since the primary capital was from Uncle Sam, you think that it does not matter? All the more reason for us to not bow down to the Illuminati hyper-environmentalism depopulation agenda. Jojo ----- Original Message ----- From: ChemE Stewart To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Solar Collectors' Avian Threat 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 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.
