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2016-180 - Crescent Dunes Mandala

2016-180 – Crescent Dunes Mandala

Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Facility by Solar Reserve

This week’s MotD Theme: A MAZE Zing Journey

In Tonopah, Nevada, SolarReserve built the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Facility. It’s the first utility-scale facility in the world to feature advanced molten salt power tower energy storage capabilities.

Even though it clearly serves an industrial, utilitarian purpose, it also serves as a…

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Beauty in Solar

When pondering giant, futuristic energy generating installations, one rarely envisions a beautiful, shimmering sea of twirling squares.  Southeast of Vegas exists just such a thing. 173,500 heliostats (2 massive mirrors that rotate to focus light on a particular point) focus in synchrony just on the edge of the Mojave.

The Ivanpah Solar Power facility is a Department of Energy backed, $2.2…

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SA Scientists International Breakthrough - 'Plonkable' Heliostats

SA Scientists International Breakthrough – ‘Plonkable’ Heliostats

Scientists at Stellenbosch University have found a way to harness cheap solar energy by perfecting a process that has stumped the world’s best engineers for years. As news of the ground-breaking design travelled across the globe yesterday, the scientists behind Helio100 continued testing of their prototype. The Solar Thermal Research Group has dramatically reduced the cost of creating heliostats…

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Birds Bursting Into Flames over State of the Art Solar Plant

IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Hey lucasthegray, remember that joke about microwave power transmission and birds falling out of the sky pre-cooked?

Welp.