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
What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
The plant appears likely to become a high-profile loser in the race to develop new types of clean energy in the era of climate change. The Ivanpah plant uses a technology known as solar-thermal ...