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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Thu May 8, 2014, 06:31 PM May 2014

We saw the new Ivanpah solar plant off of I-15 near the CA/NV border... [View all]

It was AWESOME!
These solar generating plants looked like something from another planet.

It was pretty windy that day so the cell phone photo out of my side window wasn't that good...

http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/ivanpah-solar-project#.U2wEZkZOXX4

The electricity generated by all three plants is enough to serve more than 140,000 homes in California during the peak hours of the day.
The complex will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 400,000 tons per year.

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We saw the new Ivanpah solar plant off of I-15 near the CA/NV border... [View all] Playinghardball May 2014 OP

Fantastic isn't it. Wellstone ruled May 2014 #1

We should be building these plants all over the U.S. and shutting down all of the coal plants... Playinghardball May 2014 #3

A couple of them around Seattle would be good. oldhippie May 2014 #4

can't have em here onethatcares May 2014 #11

the future of energyh is now! n/t Sheepshank May 2014 #2

Really wild looking. Egnever May 2014 #5

Juuuuuust wait. A HERETIC I AM May 2014 #6

Agreed on all points. Warren DeMontague May 2014 #10

Yep. And tortoises too n2doc May 2014 #12

Cool! DLnyc May 2014 #7

k&r nt bananas May 2014 #8

AWESOME Warren DeMontague May 2014 #9

Any is better than none madokie May 2014 #13

I love the turbines that have started going up around here too..... a kennedy May 2014 #14