Obama's gargantuan solar energy project closes- at least 1.6 billion in taxpayer dollars wasted.

[DonGlock26]

"Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year



The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President Obama’s first energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”

Instead, it has become yet another example of central planners squandering taxpayer money on an ill-conceived green-energy boondoggle. Covering five square miles of the sun-drenched Mojave Desert, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Ivanpah features three 459-foot towers and 173,500 computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats. “The mirrors reflect heat from the sun to a receiver mounted on top of the tower,” energy consultant Edward Smeloff told the New York Post. “That heats a fluid. It creates steam [that spins] a conventional steam turbine. It is complicated.”

So complicated, in fact, that the project ran with breathtaking inefficiency. Since going into operation in 2014, Ivanpah, built at a cost of $2.2 billion, never came close to meeting its boosters’ lofty expectations. In the world of solar energy, Ivanpah found itself unable to compete with conventional photovoltaic installations, which themselves are unable to meet the soaring demands of electricity-hungry artificial intelligence (AI)."

BONNER COHEN: Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year |

dailycallernewsfoundation.org

Well, it's not as bad a failure as Obamacare was. I do feel bad about all the birds fried by these solar panels.

 

[kyzr]

Maybe that's why Trump is canceling "green" projects? They don't work well.

 

[1srelluc]

Another vile dem grift stream gone.

LOL....To power a typical data center they would need a solar farm that covers 700-odd acres in solid panels.

**** the vile dems with rusty rebar for putting the country through this green BS.

 

[gipper]

If you haven’t figured it out yet, our government is a criminal enterprise stealing the wealth of the American people and giving it to assholes. It doesn’t matter which crime family is in charge. They are both essentially the same.

 

[Rambunctious]

Solar and wind is a fools game...

 

[toobfreak]

Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year

As an engineer, I cringe just looking at these installations--- the cost, the complexity, the maintenance.

The fatal flaw to all of this green energy is that, yes, there is all this free energy coming from the Sun, all we could ever need. But look at how nature utilizes it: it is directly trapped, absorbed, and turned into plant sugars in a single process, nature does not reflect it off mirrors that get dirty then need cleaning and re-coating, into a tower that needs computer aiming, to heat up a fluid, to then spin a turbine, to then generate electricity.

Burning coal is for us, a lot closer to how nature works.

By the time we go through all of the steps to convert simple sunlight into energy we can use, it has lost nearly all advantage.

 

[Leo123]

Democrats once again show their stupidity.

 

[22lcidw]

Solar and wind is a fools game...

His oceanfront homes were supposed to be a hundred feet below water by now.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

"Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year



The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President Obama’s first energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”

Instead, it has become yet another example of central planners squandering taxpayer money on an ill-conceived green-energy boondoggle. Covering five square miles of the sun-drenched Mojave Desert, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Ivanpah features three 459-foot towers and 173,500 computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats. “The mirrors reflect heat from the sun to a receiver mounted on top of the tower,” energy consultant Edward Smeloff told the New York Post. “That heats a fluid. It creates steam [that spins] a conventional steam turbine. It is complicated.”

So complicated, in fact, that the project ran with breathtaking inefficiency. Since going into operation in 2014, Ivanpah, built at a cost of $2.2 billion, never came close to meeting its boosters’ lofty expectations. In the world of solar energy, Ivanpah found itself unable to compete with conventional photovoltaic installations, which themselves are unable to meet the soaring demands of electricity-hungry artificial intelligence (AI)."

BONNER COHEN: Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility In Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year |

dailycallernewsfoundation.org

Well, it's not as bad a failure as Obamacare was. I do feel bad about all the birds fried by these solar panels.

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Five miles of solar panels at its widest point .

Unbelievable.

Good riddance.

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[TheGreatSatan]

If solar energy was a good investment for Americans, democrats would do everything they could to block such projects.

Democrats = traitors

 

[whitehall]

The windmills ain't far behind.

 

[1srelluc]

The fed .gov should not just let them just abandon it either. They should make CA pay for it's complete removal, disposal, and land reclamation.

I'm sure there's an endangered horned toad out there that needs the new and improved EPA's help.....The cost to CA isn't even a consideration.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

As an engineer, I cringe just looking at these installations--- the cost, the complexity, the maintenance.

The fatal flaw to all of this green energy is that, yes, there is all this free energy coming from the Sun, all we could ever need. But look at how nature utilizes it: it is directly trapped, absorbed, and turned into plant sugars in a single process, nature does not reflect it off mirrors that get dirty then need cleaning and re-coating, into a tower that needs computer aiming, to heat up a fluid, to then spin a turbine, to then generate electricity.

Burning coal is for us, a lot closer to how nature works.

By the time we go through all of the steps to convert simple sunlight into energy we can use, it has lost nearly all advantage.

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Turn it into date farms. Amazing food source, suited for the desert.

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[TheGreatSatan]

Democrats once again show their stupidity.

Democrats aren't stupid. They are purposely trying to bankrupt and collapse America.

Democrats = traitors

 

[Thinker101]

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Turn it into date farms. Amazing food source, suited for the desert.

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Slow that camel down, this is California. If you turn it into date farms, they'll want illegals to staff the farm.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Slow that camel down, this is California. If you turn it into date farms, they'll want illegals to staff the farm.

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They can't do shit without their slaves.

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[TheGreatSatan]

Slow that camel down, this is California. If you turn it into date farms, they'll want illegals to staff the farm.

Democrats use Illegal child labor to grow their pot in California.

 

[Leo123]

Democrats aren't stupid. They are purposely trying to bankrupt and collapse America.

Democrats = traitors

Purposely trying to bankrupt and collapse America is the very definition of stupid.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Purposely trying to bankrupt and collapse America is the very definition of stupid.

Not really.

Once you realize democrats are traitors working with America's enemies to intentionally collapse America and usher in the great reset, suddenly everything they support and do will make perfect sense, and you won't think they are stupid.

Democrats believe they can collapse the country and rebuild it into a globalist dystopia they will rule over with an iron fist.

 

[Mack The Finger]

Well, it's not as bad a failure as Obamacare was. I do feel bad about all the birds fried by these solar panels.

You're a racist !

For those of youse not bright enough to figure it out...that is sarcasm !

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