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   FortyTwo™ (fortytwo@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:15:09 JST FortyTwo™

   Farewell to Ivanpah, the world’s ugliest solar plant

   Ivanpah’s concentrated solar technology, which uses sunlight to heat a fluid and generate steam, never worked as well as expected. Meanwhile, solar photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight directly to electricity got super cheap. Ivanpah quickly became known as an expensive, bird-killing eyesore.

   https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-01-27/boiling-point-farewell-to-ivanpah-the-worlds-ugliest-solar-plant-boiling-point

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     mk (mk@mastodon.satoshishop.de)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:15:08 JST mk

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     "expensive, bird-killing eyesore."

     sacrifice more bird to the weather-gods !!!!

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     FortyTwo™ (fortytwo@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 16:15:09 JST FortyTwo™

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     >> So many birds have been victims of the plant's concentrated sun rays that workers referred to them as "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. When federal wildlife investigators visited the plant around 10 years ago, they reported an average of one "streamer" every two minutes.