California's Record-Breaking New Solar Plant Is Already Irrelevant

Cadillac Desert

I read this book several years ago. IMHO it's spot on and a good read. The history of water in the west is fascinating. Watch "Chinatown" again for a quick review of a time in LA's recent water history. The book begins with a scene 200 yrs in the future with a tour vehicle parked on a bluff overlooking the once great but abandoned city of Phoenix. Like the Anasazi Indians before us, drought once again claims the area. Don't muck with Mother Nature!
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San Onofre

Moochie said:
I think Bechtel was still doing all the maintenance on this station. Mitsubishi made the new replacement tubes in the replacement generators. Maybe the complete generators - I'm not sure of this.
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Bechtel did build the plant originally and had the maintenance contract for many years. Bechtel also had the contract to replace two Steam Generators in both Unit 2 and Unit 3. The Replacement Steam Generators were bought by Southern California Edison (Owner of San Onofre) from Mitsubishi for installation by Bechtel.

Fukushima is a Boiling Water Reactor where San Onofre is a Pressurized Water Reactor. They both make power via a nuclear reaction but the method is a little different.

Bechtel also had the contract for Ivanpah..... :)
 
That's impossible. This power plant is only supposed to help the environment. :rolleyes2:
 
And in more news, this new "environmentally friendly" solar power plant is frying thousands of bird in mid-air. In fact, the workers at this power plant refer to them as "streamers" as when they fly through the death ray, they ignite and fall to the ground in a trail of smoke.

Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air
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IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

The investigators want the halt until the full extent of the deaths can be assessed. Estimates per year now range from a low of about a thousand by BrightSource to 28,000 by an expert for the Center for Biological Diversity environmental group.

The deaths are "alarming. It's hard to say whether that's the location or the technology," said Garry George, renewable-energy director for the California chapter of the Audubon Society. "There needs to be some caution."

The bird kills mark the latest instance in which the quest for clean energy sometimes has inadvertent environmental harm. Solar farms have been criticized for their impacts on desert tortoises, and wind farms have killed birds, including numerous raptors.

Read the whole article here:
http://news.yahoo.com/emerging-solar-plants-scorch-birds-mid-air-054013072.html
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wayoflife said:
And in more news, this new "environmentally friendly" solar power plant is frying thousands of bird in mid-air. In fact, the workers at this power plant refer to them as "streamers" as when they fly through the death ray, they ignite and fall to the ground in a trail of smoke.
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Green Energy that also provides a value meal! A Win/Win situation????
 
So we can't wheel unless environmental impact studies are performed....but the rich get richer while fryin birds all day long.

'Merica!
 
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...more-of-the-one-thing-you-would-never-expect/

Solar power is supposed to replace fossil fuels, right?The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station concentrates sunshine, heating water and converting the steam into electricity.
But lately, it hasn’t been getting enough sunshine — despite being located in the blistering Mojave Desert southwest of Las Vegas — so the plant’s operators are asking for permission to bring in more of another fuel source: natural gas.
Ivanpah. (Image via Bill & Vicki T / flickr)

As the Arizona Daily Independent reported:
Bright Source Energy, the company operating the plant, is petitioning the California government, requesting permission to burn more natural gas and to emit 94,749 more tons of carbon dioxide per year. That’s the equivalent of emissions from about 16,500 automobiles.
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