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I believe those steam and molten salt solar plants are now non-operational.
These three are still operating in California. https://www.energy.gov/lpo/ivanpah
Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Plant in Israel uses molten salt as its storage technology. Ivanpah has no storage, feeds into the grid.
IVANPAH | Department of Energy
Rising 450 feet above the California Desert, Ivanpah is the world's largest concentrating solar power facility.
https://www.energy.gov/lpo/ivanpahYes...I have flown over and driven past the Ivanpah plant many times. I always had to stare at it...it was very unearthly looking.
One of the biggest FRAUDS on the American Taxpayers...I worked on the project and thought it was stupid since its conception. The technology sprung out of Solar 1, which the US Dept of Energy, The Navy, and all of the backers found it to be an utter failure....Yet 40 years later...Hey...Let's spend $2,000,000,000 on a failed technology.
YES...I have flown over and driven past it many times
Carbon based breather of air. Keeper of candles and minder of bridges. Coauthor of War!Sing
True.
also: Over $50 million was spent to relocate animals.
Everybody knows that translocation doesn’t work. I saw the new habitats. Last I heard the tortoise relocated from Ivanpah did not survive.
Chevron Corporation built the Ivanpah Desert Tortoise Research Facility, a partnership with the National Park Service, and National Park Trust.