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

[whitehall]

They put a big unsightly solar farm in a nearby town in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and so far it did nothing to lower the energy costs. What's the point?

 

[DonGlock26]

They put a big unsightly solar farm in a nearby town in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and so far it did nothing to lower the energy costs. What's the point?

Grifting.

 

[excalibur]

Solar and wind is a fools game...

Just ask Spain.

 

[excalibur]

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

Democrats = traitors

Cloward-Piven.

 

[excalibur]

They put a big unsightly solar farm in a nearby town in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and so far it did nothing to lower the energy costs. What's the point?

Money-laundering.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

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.

Your only solution is to give politicians more of Hardworking Americans money.
Leftism is an irrational failure.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

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

It’s the very definition of leftism.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

"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.

The President is about to spend $1B sprucing up his bribe jet.

I'm just here to watch the hilariously bad MAGAt acting.

 

[Leo123]

It’s the very definition of leftism.

It’s the very definition of leftism.

Yeah, leftism is stupidity.

 

[White 6]

"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.

I wonder if I can get a few cheap, 2nd hand solar panels or do they just sit wasted, in the desert, cooking birds.

 

[DonGlock26]

The President is about to spend $1B sprucing up his bribe jet.

I'm just here to watch the hilariously bad MAGAt acting.

I wonder how much green energy money went into Democrat coffers?

 

[Lesh]

So the plant is being shut down.

Whatever will they do with it?

Oh yeah . Repurpose it as a photo voltaic site

 

[justoffal]

"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.

What was the efficiency number? I'm curious...it is a pet project of mine to follow these things.

 

[Mashmont]

"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.

Just like Eleanor Roosevelt's model socialist town in West Virginia failed. Marxist-forced efforts never work. You think we would learn. Now NYC has to go through this failed crap all over again. This is the leftwing media's fault for not sounding the alarm against Communism. They need to be dissolved and replaced.

Arthurdale, West Virginia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[justoffal]

Just like Eleanor Roosevelt's model socialist town in West Virginia failed. Marxist-forced efforts never work.

I beg to differ..... Just because the people in that town grew to hate each other, just because there was backstabbing and squabbling.... Just because they found they couldn't add the numbers and pay the bills.... Just because they suddenly discovered that whenever you fertilize failure you get more failure..... Doesn't mean it failed. Oh ...wait