Practical use found for Ivanpah hybrid gas/solar plant...

[hunter]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

Margaret Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.

[lapfog_1]

1. practical night time use

It does produce around 940 GWhours per year with mostly (but not entirely) solar energy.

[hunter]

2. We humans shit all over the desert and wasted a lot of money to build this "green" power plant.

It is not saving the world in any way.

I have less criticism of solar built over parking lots, rooftops, and other landscapes that have already been destroyed by humans. Those may indeed be better-than-coal, but better-than-coal is not a lofty goal.

In days past people saw smokestacks as something representative of human "progress." These huge solar and wind projects tearing up natural landscapes represent the same sort of misguided thinking.

The only way to quit fossil fuels is to quit fossil fuels but few are willing or able to do that; not on a personal level, not on a community level, not on a national level, and certainly not on an international level.