This is what these solar farms do >
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2014/08/24/ivanpah-thermal-solar-power-plant-produces-death-rays-torching-many-birds/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/26/solyndra-misled-government-get-535-million-solar-p/
START
Ivanpah thermal solar power plant produces “death rays” torching many birds
By Ralph Maughan On August 24, 2014
In B.L.M., Desert Tortoise, Energy, Public Lands, Solar Roast bird record at Mojave solar plant even worse than predicted?
Plant workers call them “streamers.” Birds that fly through the beams of concentrated sunlight at the massive Ivanpah solar plant near Primm, Nevada catch fire and fall from the sky, leaving a smoky trail as they burn and die.
This solar plant is not the typical solar plant made of photovoltaic cells.
Photovoltaics are thought usually harmless to wildlife except for the cleared land. Photovoltaics are very scalable — they can be built in all sizes, shapes, and put on the ground, rooftops, parking lots, platforms at sea, etc.
The Ivanpah style plant instead uses many thousands of large mirrors (300,000 at Ivanpah). They concentrate reflected sunlight into powerful beams aimed at “power towers” — boilers that use the steam to turn turbines and generate electricity in the old fashioned way. Photovoltaics produce electricity directly.
The Ivanpah plant has been controversial from the start. At first it was because the land selected in the Ivanpah Valley was splendid habitat for many hundreds of desert tortoises. The land was also very near to the Mojave National Preserve.
It is also on public (BLM) lands covering about 6 square miles from which all vegetation has been removed and the desert soil covered over.
As time went by it occurred to people that the solar beams with their temperatures up to 800º F would be dangerous to anything that passed through them. In addition the flashes from the mirrors could carry a long way and be a danger to pilots.
Now it is thought that the rows of mirrors reflecting light look like desert lakes to birds. Moreover, the light from the mirrors attracts insects too, further attracting birds.
One formally reported incident of “flash glare” was reported in March this year. Extremely bright flash-glare from the mirror fields around the towers briefly blinded the pilots flying a corporate light 2 turbojet. It had passengers aboard.
There is no agreement how many birds are roasted, but a recent study made public by the California Energy Commission by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) indicates that the number is high.
The report says “It appears that Ivanpah may act as a “mega-trap,” attracting insects which in turn attract insect-eating birds, which are incapacitated by solar flux injury, thus attracting predators and creating an entire food chain vulnerable to injury and death.”
Unlike wind farms which seem to preferentially kill certain kind of birds, Ivanpah was “equal opportunity.”
The remains of 71 species were identified, representing a broad range of ecological types. In body size, these ranged from hummingbirds to pelicans; in ecological type from strictly aerial feeders (swallows) to strictly aquatic feeders (grebes) to ground feeders (roadrunners) to raptors (hawks and owls).
The species identified were equally divided among resident and non-resident species, and nocturnal as well as diurnal species were represented. Although not analyzed in detail, there was also significant bat and insect mortality at the Ivanpah site, including monarch butterflies.
Collecting birds on the ground does not give a full accounting of bird death because not all “streamers” fall and die on sight. Birds were observed to fly through, catch fire and then perch, only to make a erratic flight off to die somewhere else. CBD estimated that perhaps 28,000 birds die from what happens at the site each year.
BrightSource Energy runs the place. They estimate about a thousand birds a year dead, but last year federal investigators report they saw “streamers” about every 2 minutes during their visit to Ivanpah.
Right wing fossil fuel advocates are criticizing environmentalists using Ivanpah as an example of what alternative energy, which they misleadingly call “green energy,” is like. It is not green, and Ivanpah was opposed by a number of environmental groups from the start, including CBD and Western Watersheds Project, who sued to try to stop it.
Back in 2011, we ran a number of stories in the Wildlife News about WWPs efforts to stop it. Excellent updates with photos on the project and other controversial solar projects can be found at http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/
Below are select articles from the News.
* Last Spring at Ivanpah ? April 12, 2009
* Ivanpah Power Plant – Not Clean Not Green. Oct. 5, 2010
* WWP Sues to Stop Fast Tracked Ivanpah Power Plant in California. Jan. 17, 2011
* BLM halts some construction at Ivanpah Power Plant. April 19, 2011
Despite the controversy over Ivanpah, BrightSource has applied to build another such plant in the middle of an important flyway where much larger birds, and larger numbers of birds are at risk. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reported to be trying to stop this project. This would be a 75-story power tower and mirrors. The tower would rise above the sand dunes and creek washes the run between Joshua Tree National Park and the California-Arizona border. The flyway is between the Colorado River and the Salton Sea.
END
EDIT >
Bright Source Energy/Solyndra/SolarReach
https://twitter.com/BrightSource
Israel is building the world's tallest solar tower, with 50,000 mirrors #solar #Ashalim #CSP -
https://twitter.com/BrightSource/status/852931455424626689
BrightSource Energy @BrightSource
Connected Threads >
<
https://voat.co/v/QRV/3459907
https://voat.co/v/QRV/3459627
Thanks.
D5
NMBRFG
WWG1WGA!
'o-o' <
view the rest of the comments →
20859204? ago
Part 4 >
NRG mentjioned this week with respect to Paul Peolsi and Viscoil?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-01/nrg-s-massive-california-solar-plant-finally-making-enough-power
Mmmmm? Where have we heard about NRG?
It's also connected to
NRG’s Massive California Solar Plant Finally Making Enough Power
By
Joe Ryan
February 2, 2017, 6:24 AM GMT+10 Updated on February 2, 2017, 3:01 PM GMT+10
* Ivanpah solar-thermal plant struggled to produce enough power
* One-year forbearance deal with PG&E expired Wednesday
The world’s biggest solar-thermal power plant is finally producing enough electricity.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Southern California initially failed to meet contractual obligations, and a yearlong forbearance deal with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. expired Wednesday. After fine-tuning the complex facility that uses 170,000 mirrors, output is up and it’s no longer at risk of defaulting on the deal, according to David Knox, a spokesman for operator and co-owner NRG Energy Inc.
END
There's that NRG connection which links all this shit to Paul and Nancy Pelosi, Obama, Joe and Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz/John Kerry, AND China and Ukraine. The plot thickens. >
https://voat.co/v/QRV/3457594
https://themarketswork.com/2018/03/16/hunter-bidens-china-connections/
Hunter Biden’s China Connections
March 16, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA
My frustration is not that the reporting on Trump has been too tough, but that the reporting on the Obama administration has been way too soft or in some cases nonexistent. – Peter Schweizer
In December of 2013, Vice President Biden and his son Hunter Biden flew to China on Air Force Two.
Ten days after the trip, a subsidiary of the Bank of China signed a deal with Hunter Biden’s investment firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, to form a $1 billion joint-venture investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST.
The deal was later increased to $1.5 billion.
Rosemont Seneca Partners is an investment LLC under the ownership umbrella of Rosemont Capital.
Unlike most financial firms, Rosemont is headquartered in Washington DC.
Rosemont Capital, formed in 2009, is controlled by Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Also involved is Devon Archer, a longtime Heinz and Kerry friend. Archer was a fundraiser for Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
A third partner in the China deal was the Thornton Group – headed by Whitey Bulger’s nephew, James Bulger.
The information was revealed in Peter Schweizer’s new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.
From an excerpt in the New York Post:
The American delegation was visiting Japan, China, and South Korea. But it was the visit to China that had the most potential to generate conflict and controversy. The Obama administration had instituted the “Asia Pivot” in its international strategy, shifting attention away from Europe and toward Asia, where China was flexing its muscles.
For Hunter Biden, the trip coincided with a major deal that Rosemont Seneca was striking with the state-owned Bank of China. From his perspective, the timing couldn’t have been better.
Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden arrived to a red carpet and a delegation of Chinese officials. The delegation was then whisked to a meeting with Vice President Li Yuanchao and talks with President Xi Jinping.
Hunter and Finnegan Biden joined the vice president for tea with US Ambassador Gary Locke at the Liu Xian Guan Teahouse in the Dongcheng District in Beijing. Where Hunter Biden spent the rest of his time on the trip remains largely a mystery.
What was not reported was the deal that Hunter was securing. Rosemont Seneca Partners had been negotiating an exclusive deal with Chinese officials, which they signed approximately 10 days after Hunter visited China with his father. The most powerful financial institution in China, the government’s Bank of China, was setting up a joint venture with Rosemont Seneca.
In 2009 Hunter Biden, Chris Heinz and Devon Archer formed Rosemont Capital – an alternative investment fund for the Heinz Family.
According to an email revealed as part of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, Rosemont described themselves as “a $2.4 billion private equity firm co-owned by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz,” with Devon Archer as “Managing Partner.”
Rosemont Capital contains several funds – Rosemont Seneca Partners, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, and Rosemont Realty – separate legal entities owned by Rosemont Capital.
Rosemont Seneca Partners formed the joint venture with China – along with the Thorton Group.
Thornton Group is run by James Bulger, the nephew of mob figure James “Whitey” Bulger.
From Schweizer’s book:
James Bulger’s father, Whitey’s younger brother, Billy Bulger, serves on the board of directors of the Thornton Group. He was the longtime leader of the Massachusetts state Senate and, with their long overlap by state and by party, a political ally of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.
In 2010, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer traveled to China to “explore the possibility of commercial cooperation and opportunity.”
They apparently found opportunity aplenty.
Schweizer on the first series of Chinese meetings in 2010:
Thornton Group’s account of the meeting on their Chinese-language website was telling:
Chinese executives “extended their warm welcome” to the “Thornton Group, with its US partner Rosemont Seneca chairman Hunter Biden (second son of the now Vice President Joe Biden).”
According to the Thornton Group, the three Americans met with the largest and most powerful government fund leaders in China — even though Rosemont was both new and small.
See Part 5 >