Ok. I am going to assume that you really do care about the truth. (Yes, I know the concept of assume- but if you don’t care about the truth, the only ass is you. Not me.)
Continue reading Hacker’s Heaven?
So, last Friday, I gave you a hint of the kind of warfare our infrastructure is enduring. Not well, mind you. Which means we are at risk. At risk of being flooded out of our homes, left in the dark, having our factories shut down, or traveling our roads confounded with lights that are arranged for congestion or collisions.
Looks like the idea of using heliostat for electricity is getting worse.
When I reported on the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System last June, we were waiting for it to begin delivering 377 MW of electricity to PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) customers. The plant, which was built by Bechtel, uses more than 170,000 mirrors (that’s NOT a typo) to concentrate the sun’s energy on three (3) solar steam generators some 450 feet up in the air. That steam runs generators to produce electricity for PG&E customers.
Continue reading Solar flares?
