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Posted: 11/18/2013 8:33:06 AM EDT

Passed his project yesterday afternoon. 3,500 acres (5.5 square miles) of heliostats, three 460 foot high boiler towers. One was in production mode, the other two were idle, one of which looked to be still under construction.

The scale and setting of this thing made it appear to be a set for a science fiction movie on some alien planet.

Not my photos.

2.2 Billion dollars.

Posted: 11/18/2013 9:15:53 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/18/2013 9:21:15 AM EDT

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Yeah I saw that when I drove from Vegas to LA this summer. It's pretty impressive.

As a side note they have a facility like that in the game Fallout New Vegas. I'm going to assume it was based off of that.

Posted: 11/18/2013 9:24:14 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/18/2013 9:26:15 AM EDT

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The logic of a power plant in the desert that need lots of water. Impressive.

Posted: 11/18/2013 9:28:32 AM EDT

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Seems like a lot of money and lot of square acreage for not a lot of power.

Posted: 11/18/2013 9:43:26 AM EDT

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A lot of IBEW Union hands worked there.

Posted: 11/18/2013 9:52:02 AM EDT

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1. Place 170,000 mirrors in a state rife with earthquakes.

2. Seven years of bad luck per broken mirror = 1,190,000 years of bad luck.

3. Profit.

Posted: 11/18/2013 9:59:40 AM EDT

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It's closed circuit for the water.

Posted: 11/18/2013 2:21:08 PM EDT

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Never knew they had built one at Ivanpaugh. I am familiar with the similar one the is (was?) located at Daggett, CA and the large "tube-on-reflector" type solar array at Kramer Junction, CA. Interdasting.

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