Maybe your sense. No it has not been paid back to the US tax payer. Where did I say shut it down???? I said:
"With PV prices plummeting it makes no sense to put in another albatross like this." I also said it will make good movie prop. Stop making stuff up, like "illuminati" crap. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Jojo Iznart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > *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 <[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. >>> >>> >
