2024 debate Trump: “solar is taking up all the space in desert, it ruins the desert, but i love solar, they know its bad for the environment”
Opal-- on
oh, so we’re 2 upping eachother, now, eh?
AngryDuck222 on
UFO landing spots, actually.
fr0st1ll1cus on
That’s the Ivanpah Solar Electric Station. Fun facts: those aren’t solar panels you see, they’re mirrors. Each mirror points towards 1 of 3 towers in the center. Each tower contains an “inside out” boiler…which creates steam to power a 130 MW steam turbine.
When they first commissioned the plant they had to figure out the best way to run the mirrors. They used to concentrate sunlight at a point in space, that birds would fly through and catch fire. Plant guys would call them ‘streamers.’
Source: briefly worked there during construction.
MayorLag on
It’s actually just one solar farm, moving really fast.
scwalls on
“Triple solar farm?! Whoooooa. What does it meeeeeean?!”
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2024 debate Trump: “solar is taking up all the space in desert, it ruins the desert, but i love solar, they know its bad for the environment”
oh, so we’re 2 upping eachother, now, eh?
UFO landing spots, actually.
That’s the Ivanpah Solar Electric Station. Fun facts: those aren’t solar panels you see, they’re mirrors. Each mirror points towards 1 of 3 towers in the center. Each tower contains an “inside out” boiler…which creates steam to power a 130 MW steam turbine.
When they first commissioned the plant they had to figure out the best way to run the mirrors. They used to concentrate sunlight at a point in space, that birds would fly through and catch fire. Plant guys would call them ‘streamers.’
Source: briefly worked there during construction.
It’s actually just one solar farm, moving really fast.
“Triple solar farm?! Whoooooa. What does it meeeeeean?!”
Really man? https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/XNPfpMQYNl