Showing posts with label Mojave Dessert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mojave Dessert. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Plan for solar plant in Mojave scrapped - Courtesy of Senator Dianne Fienstein

Courtesy of Senator Dianne Fienstein:

"Plan for solar plant in Mojave scrapped":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/19/MN4T19OTBJ.DTL

From: friend Steve T.
This entire discussion is a moot point - I predict ALL major solar power developments will be stopped, probably using environmental issues as an excuse, but, regardless of the excuse, they'll come up with some reason why none will be built, and even if, by some
miracle, one actually does get constructed, our politicians will find a way to shut it down too . . .


Which, of course, will leave us still dependent on big oil and burning oil for power.


Funny how that works, huh?


Use green smoke as smoke screen but, in the end, always end up serving big oil.


So, Dianne, how much did big oil stuff in that numbered bank account of yours in the Bahamas to destroy our solar power plant and betray all Americans and sell us out to your big oil masters anyway?


None of these is going to happen.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Solar power plant links

I was researching the Solar two power plant that is now shut down in the Mojave Desert.



LA Times Article A solar plant that's worth its salt May 29, 2009

Search google image search with
"solar two" Mojave


Google Map aerial photo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Two
http://www.powerfromthesun.net/Chapter10/Chapter10new.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Two_2003.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Two_Heliostat.jpg
http://theothersolar.com/?m=200702
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1101-10.htm
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/solar-central-power-towers.html

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/U4735/projections/pitman/solar.elec.jpg

http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection/wp/s/Solar_power.htm
(search for "Solar two")

http://www.reia-nm.org/HTML_Docs/Solar_Thermal_Electrical.html
http://greatgreengadgets.com/gadgets/category/solar/
http://www.answers.com/topic/solar-thermal-energy
http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2006/week44/index.html

Excellent page on many technologies - Sorry it's in Spanish.
http://g3nergy.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
Search for "Australia to Build 154 MW Solar Energy Plant"
This one is identical in design to the one in the Mojave Dessert here.

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA4965/ Abandoned Solar Power Plant


This shows video of Mojave Solar 2 plant at 5:30 in to the middle of the clip.