This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at ...
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10 Facts About Renewable Energy That Will Inspire a Greener Future
The Sun Provides Enough Energy in One Hour to Power the World for a Year Imagine the sun as an enormous, blazing powerhouse above us. It radiates such a vast amount of energy that in just one hour, it ...