UK2K
08-02-2016, 10:02 AM
The Ivanpah solar plant in Southern California killed 6,185 birds in 2015. That includes burning about 1,145 birds with the intense heat coming off its many mirrored heliostat panels, according to a recent report on the government-backed solar project.
An audit of how many birds and bats Ivanpah kills every year found “there were an estimated 2500 fatalities from known causes and 3686 fatalities from unknown causes” last year. Of the known fatalities, nearly 46 percent were killed by the intense, concentrated heat used to generate electricity.
“It’s an unbelievably high number, and we’re really alarmed,” Garry George, renewable energy director for the Audubon Society’s California arm, told E&E News. “We have a lot of questions about this mortality report.”
Ivanpah has been the target of bird enthusiasts for some time. The $2.2 billion solar plant doesn’t just use ordinary photovoltaic panels, it uses more than 170,000 mirrored heliostat panels to concentrate the sun’s rays on to boilers atop three tall towers to generate electricity.
That means the air around Ivanpah is superheated by concentrated solar power — not good news for the thousands of migratory birds that pass over the site every year.
So all those animal lovers... bad news. Your $2.2 billion dollar green energy plant is melting birds by the thousands. :oldlol:
Even better? The plant was going to be shut down because it wasn't producing enough electricity to begin with:
California regulators considered shutting down Ivanpah for not generating enough electricity. The plant only generated 45 percent of expected power in 2014 and only 68 percent in 2015, according to government data. It’s electricity also cost $200 per megawatt-hour.
The cherry on top? We paid for it. I say 'we', but I mean taxpayers. Half the country didn't pay for it, they just get to enjoy it. Or rather, enjoy what little of it there is.
But lawmakers are still worried taxpayers could be on the hook if Ivanpah goes under. Ivanpah got a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, and even asked for a $539 million grant to pay off its federal loan.
That's right. The DoE loaned them $1.6 billion, and then NRG actually had the balls to ask for a $500 million dollar grant to pay off the loan. :oldlol:
That's what we like... just keep shoving money in there until you can claim it as a success.
http://pmd205465tn.download.theplatform.com.edgesuite.net/Miramax/221/543/Scary_Movie_2_11b_640x360_79405123690.jpg
Just stuff the shit out of it. Throw more money at it, and then loan it to them, and then pay off the loan you loaned them. Whatever it takes to be able to claim this disaster as a success, that's what we'll do.
:applause:
An audit of how many birds and bats Ivanpah kills every year found “there were an estimated 2500 fatalities from known causes and 3686 fatalities from unknown causes” last year. Of the known fatalities, nearly 46 percent were killed by the intense, concentrated heat used to generate electricity.
“It’s an unbelievably high number, and we’re really alarmed,” Garry George, renewable energy director for the Audubon Society’s California arm, told E&E News. “We have a lot of questions about this mortality report.”
Ivanpah has been the target of bird enthusiasts for some time. The $2.2 billion solar plant doesn’t just use ordinary photovoltaic panels, it uses more than 170,000 mirrored heliostat panels to concentrate the sun’s rays on to boilers atop three tall towers to generate electricity.
That means the air around Ivanpah is superheated by concentrated solar power — not good news for the thousands of migratory birds that pass over the site every year.
So all those animal lovers... bad news. Your $2.2 billion dollar green energy plant is melting birds by the thousands. :oldlol:
Even better? The plant was going to be shut down because it wasn't producing enough electricity to begin with:
California regulators considered shutting down Ivanpah for not generating enough electricity. The plant only generated 45 percent of expected power in 2014 and only 68 percent in 2015, according to government data. It’s electricity also cost $200 per megawatt-hour.
The cherry on top? We paid for it. I say 'we', but I mean taxpayers. Half the country didn't pay for it, they just get to enjoy it. Or rather, enjoy what little of it there is.
But lawmakers are still worried taxpayers could be on the hook if Ivanpah goes under. Ivanpah got a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, and even asked for a $539 million grant to pay off its federal loan.
That's right. The DoE loaned them $1.6 billion, and then NRG actually had the balls to ask for a $500 million dollar grant to pay off the loan. :oldlol:
That's what we like... just keep shoving money in there until you can claim it as a success.
http://pmd205465tn.download.theplatform.com.edgesuite.net/Miramax/221/543/Scary_Movie_2_11b_640x360_79405123690.jpg
Just stuff the shit out of it. Throw more money at it, and then loan it to them, and then pay off the loan you loaned them. Whatever it takes to be able to claim this disaster as a success, that's what we'll do.
:applause: