Solar Power - A Future So Bright We Need Shades!

The future for solar power is so bright we need shades. Also, fire extinguishers:

World's Largest Solar Plant Sets Itself on Fire

Improperly aligned mirrors redirected the sun's rays at the wrong spot.

Let me just cut to their Big Finish for what may be the big finish at Ivanpah:

The fire comes just months after reports that the facility may have to shut down entirely due to its inability to provide the amount of power that was originally promised, not to mention its tendency to fry thousands of birds in the process. And that's when it's not catching itself on fire. 

Ooops.

Comments

[DrJ]

First!

[Maryd]

Second!

[Maryd]

I love the "Save with solar" ad on the left side of the page.

[common man]

HMMMMM Maybe the mirrors were not improperly aligned whatsoever, but were strategically positioned to allow the insurer to bail out the otherwise cooked gooses that we call investors/stockholders?

I have heard of more than one real estate tragedy "saved" by entrepreneurial lightning. Just sayin'

[common man]

Shades or marshmellows?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Relinking Wretchard's brilliant essay on The Servile State which was written by a stupendous and stupendously underappreciated writer, Hilliare Belloc.

[maryrose]

DrJ and MaryD
You guys made my day with your race to be first.
Enjoy the day!

[Old Lurker]

Common man...back in the day our question was "how do we start a flood?" and a "Friction Fire" was when the mortgage documents rubbed up against the insurance policy.

[buccaneer morgan]

Ah die hard, a wry primer into the mindsets of Carlos and the entebbe hijackers.

[Truthbetold5]

EXCLUSIVE: BOMBSHELL: EXPOSED: The Secret Muslim Connection Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know About

http://freebeacon.com/blog/exclusive-bombshell-exposed-the-secret-muslim-connection-donald-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

Momto2 - If you want to post smaller photographs that fit onto JOM's pages, try this website that has a *really* easy and user-friendly tool that will resize any of the common photo file types:

http://picresize.com/

You need to post the resized photo to an online photo sharing site like photobucket, tumblr, or GooglePhotos, or to Facebook or Twitter.

Here is your photograph after resizing it into a picture that is 399 (Width) X 351 (Height) pixels in size:

If you try it and find that it works out well for you, we're expecting more photos from you. If you have any problems with it, just post the issue here and I'll try to walk you through the process.

[Gentlejim]

I believe this is the same facility that has at least 25% of its electricity created by natural gas due to the need to heat water in the mornings. I imagine the lack of direct solar energy at night was "unexpected".

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

For all of the cat lovers/owners here, here's a little gem of a photograph:

Who knew they could do this?

[Comanche Voter]

To the extent that there was ever a plausible case for Ivanpah, it depended upon California utilities government imposed obligations to increase the percentage of "renewable power" in their portfolios.

Ivanpah is just off I-15. Hundreds of thousands of people making the drive between Los Angeles and Las Vegas can see this obscenity just before they hit the Nevada border.

Renewable energy kills birds. Ivanpah fries them when the birds fly through the concentrated sunlight beams. Wind power knocks birds out of the air with their windmill blades.

Obama's government goes ballistic when an oil well sludge pond kills three ducks in Nebraska---but turns a blind eye to the 500 or so eagles killed by wind turbines every year.

Ivanpah is in economic trouble now because it has not met the projected power output. Now that could simply be an engineering problem that is taking longer to solve than expected. Lots of power plants and other major engineering efforts have startup problems that eventually get solved. But it could also be that, like most of the Obama approved renewable energy ventures (can you say Solyndra?) it was designed with a liberal (or should I say "progressive") helping of pie in the sky optimism (aka BS). After all, it's good renewable intentions, not practical actual real outcomes that matter, isn't that so?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Looks like there should be a small yellow stream in that pic, Michael.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ivanpah is in economic trouble now because it has not met the projected power output.--

Yeah that rotating earth thing cut their projections about 50% right off the bat.
Unexpectedly.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The Week in Pictures: Make Bathrooms Great Again Edition
Amphibious pitcher. Heh.

[Stephanie]

I imagine the lack of direct solar energy at night was "unexpected".

There was a snapchat making its way around Facebook not long ago where some idiot posed the question of whether man would ever walk on the moon. The number one voted answer was:

Yes but they would need to do it at night.

And the response from the question asker was

I should have realized they'd do it in the dark.

[anonamom]

I want to give OL's margarita recipe a go, but this one is EXTREMELY popular, and very easy to transport, as well as remember.

1:1:2
lime juice: Cointreau: decent (or rock gut) tequilla

All you need is a plastic juicer, available at any grocery of decent size nowdays, and the three ingredients.

Cut the lime into two to juice it, and the juiced rind "cup" serves as your measure.

I assure you, these have been very well received on a number of out-of-town swim and lax team trips.
(We never stayed where the kids were.)

And like OLs, these pack a wallop--no driving allowed.

[Stephanie]

Snit. Walk on the sun.

[Frau Flitzebogen]

"Friction Fire"

OL - the Germans, for insurance purposes, used to say "Warm Demolition."

[glasater]

I make a Midori liqueur margarita and it's just like anonymoms tamarind recipe except for the switch.

Wonderful.

[Gentlejim]

Steph,
I am astounded at the number of people that can't believe you can see the moon during the day. "But, but, it's not night...". Sheesh...

[daddy]

Good Morning!

Just came downstairs, fired up my first cup of instant Jo, and see that momma has on some War Movie. At first I thought it was "All Quiet On The Western Front." That reminded me that yesterday on some news blurb I recall some reporter trying to pull a Katie Couric on Trump, demanding to know what books he had read lately. Trump replied he doesn't have time to read books since he's reading so much other stuff all the time, but when she kept pressing him and said he wasn't allowed to say "The Bible, he replied that he really liked "All Quiet On The Western Front."

A great book, and I approve of that choice in a potential future Commander in Chief.

The Movie BTW, is "The Story of GI Joe (1945) starring Robert Mitchum and I think Burgess Meredith.

Also, (rhetorical) has Barbara Boxer, who just told us she felt like her life was in danger from the Bernie Supporters that screamed her down, has she ever expressed sympathy for all the thousands of Conservative speakers shouted down by Lefty mobs on every campus in America every day of the year for the last 50 years?

[Buckeye]

Iggy

Thanks for forcing me to read Wretchard, worth every minute spent.

anonamom

Glad things turned out well for your mom. Sounds like your morning got busy in a hurry.

[DrJ]

Is this a comment on American culture?

Annual sales:

Acoustic Pianos: $300 million
Viagra: $1 billion
Beer: $250 billion

[Frau Flitzebogen]

daddy-
Baba Boxer deserved every minute of her 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas;' this is, however, Barbara "I-identify-as-woman-hear-me-roar" Boxer.
What a fraud...

[Janet S.]

test for the resizing link...

Deacon & Jess playing checkers

[Buckeye]

How the West (and the Rest) Got Rich

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-west-and-the-rest-got-rich-1463754427

Clearest thinking about economics and politics I have read in quite some time.

[Captain Hate]

You can use a piano for a long time.

My daughter's cat, Sailor, whom we have probably permanent ownership of, stands on his back legs to see movements in ivy and other ground cover. He's also a fat tabby.

[Frau Vogelfreundin]

Hang this on the end of TM's post:

May 21016 - The Obama administration is revising a federal rule that allows wind-energy companies to operate high-speed turbines for up to 30 years, even if means killing or injuring thousands of federally protected bald and golden eagles.

Under the plan announced Wednesday, companies could kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles a year without penalty -- nearly four times the current limit. Golden eagles could only be killed if companies take steps to minimize the losses, for instance, by retrofitting power poles to reduce the risk of electrocution.

[DrJ]

Oops! $250 billion is for the carbonated-beverage market. Beer sales are only $100 billion per year.

[lyle]

Further along the lines of gangsta gubmint, Insty has a post on the massive shakedowns of the big banks and where the money goes. It might help to have a Bloody Mary under your belt if you read it...

[Centralcal on iPad]

Hey Frau, speaking of Boxer - our insane and corrupt Senator - I see something like 34 names on my primary ballot for California Senator. Good grief what a nightmare!

[Janet S.]

from TM's "big finish" link - "And the Spanish company Abengoa, which has developed several large concentrated solar projects and received $2.7 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy, is in talks to restructure its debt and is in danger of becoming Spain’s largest-ever bankruptcy."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601083/ivanpahs-problems-could-signal-the-end-of-concentrated-solar-in-the-us/

[Buford Gooch]

Anonamom, this is better than a plastic juicer.

http://www.lionsdeal.com/wi-ls-8g.html?utm_source=googlepla&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=Cj0KEQjwjoC6BRDXuvnw4Ym2y8MBEiQACA-jWZOZynihioch1ORo4OmYV0ndxC0OyKj1o8uX5feExXYaAsVo8P8HAQ

[Captain Hate]

Under the plan announced Wednesday, companies could kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles a year without penalty -- nearly four times the current limit.

Too bad we can't design something that could kill up 4,200 Uniparty members without penalty. Maybe Trump will be a one person opposition party to point out this insanity and carnage. I saw somewhere in a comment section where some out of work rocket surgeon said "who cares about birds; we're trying to save the planet". I blame public schools.

[lyle]

Of all the myriad reasons to hate the outrageous duplicity and egregious double standards of Big Green, the hypocrisy of allowing eagles to get minced or other birds to get fried in the name of Gaia pisses me off the most. Well, besides all the lucre that lines the pockets of Dems and Commie Enviros, but I repeat myself.

[lyle]

That's some weapons-grade virtue signaling right there, Captain.

[Janet S.]

a link for Frau's comment - http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9a2796aa1e7542348629ea4108fe7695/apnewsbreak-new-rule-would-permit-thousands-eagle-deaths

[Frau Vogelfreundin]

cc - I wonder how Kamala and Loretta are telling their supporters to find their names? Remember the butterfly chaos in FL. hahahahahaha...

[Miss Marple 2]

http://noscomunicamos.com/index.php/2016/05/19/target-to-discontinue-sales-of-the-american-flag/#

[lyle]

I wish I shopped at Target so I could stop shopping at Target.

[Buckeye]

I wish I shopped at Target so I could stop shopping at Target.

Last 3 pack of underwear I bought came from Target. Thinking about sending it to headquarters in Minneapolis...used.

[Janet S.]

That noscomunicamos link seems kind of sketchy.

[Frau Vogelfreundin]

Thanks, Janet.
The Eagle has landed been shredded. Oh, the humanity!

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said the proposal will "provide a path forward" for maintaining eagle populations while also spurring development of a pollution-free energy source that's intended to ease global warming, a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's energy plan.

Ashe said the 162-page proposal would protect eagles and at the same time "help the country reduce its reliance on fossil fuels" such as coal and oil that contribute to global warming.

[Frau Vogelfreundin]

lyle @2:03 - ftw

[Gentlejim]

Agreed Janet. I do suggest that buckeye still return the used underwear though.

[Captain Hate]

I was talking with a friend who interacts with Whole Paycheck's buyers and asked her about their great prices on growler fills. She told me they were the first supermarket to sell from taps and their buyers are pretty aggressive being that they're the big dog in that niche.

[daddy]

Under the plan announced Wednesday, companies could kill or injure up to 4,200 bald eagles a year without penalty -- nearly four times the current limit.

So on the one hand we can't use DDT to kill the Zika mosquito because it's side effects are damaging to the egg shells of Golden and Bald Eagles, and obviously Golden and Bald Eagles are more valuable than anything else in Society including protecting humans from Zika, but on the other hand we can murder as many Golden and Bald Eagles as we want because they are completely unimportant when compared to Solar Power and the fat cats getting rich off that boondoggle.

[Janet S.]

I always liked Target. I don't want to stop shopping there, but I have since their announcement.
I wish all businesses would stop doing the bidding of political agenda organizations.
Just sell products.
I don't like all the charity promos either.

Go back to the core function of selling products for the best price possible. Period. No green enviro. crap, no pink cancer stuff, no rainbow agenda....

[lyle]

Buckeye's 2:15 reminds me of the joke about the doctor ordering up a urine sample, a stool sample, and a semen sample from his elderly patient who was also hard of hearing. After several attempts by the patient's wife to explain what the doctor requested, the old man finally says, "Hell, give the doctor my underwear!"

[Janet S.]

daddy @ 2:25...Great point!!

[lyle]

You have to slaughter a few thousand eagles because you can't break a few eagle eggs for an omelette.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/horse-racing/preakness/bal-homeboykris-dies-after-winning-first-race-on-preakness-day-20160521-story.html

[daddy]

Haven't started catch-up, but I did go thru Jonah Goldberg's long winded explanation of why he can't vote for Trump: Sorry, I Still Won’t Ever Vote for Trump

It may have been commented on already this morning by you guys, but on my first attempt I simply can't make it through the thing---sad to say but half way through it struck me as at times false, uninteresting, and just not worth my time. Maybe I'll give it a second look later, but this bit from Jonah half way through stuck out to me:

My vote won’t decide the election.

Then why bother?

Catch-up begins.

[Threadkiller]

Jonah is as irrelevant as the rest of the #NeverTrump #ProOpenBorders losers.

Now he is a poor victim of electoral geography?

He must live in Georgia as well.

[daddy]

Lyle,

reminds me of the joke about the EYE DOCTOR ordering up a urine sample, a stool sample, and a semen sample from his patient who was also hard of hearing. After several attempts by the patient's wife to explain what the EYE DOCTOR requested, the patient finally says, "Hell, give the EYE-DOCTOR my underwear!"

Fixed it for you:)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Last 3 pack of underwear I bought came from Target. Thinking about sending it to headquarters in Minneapolis...used.--

Gotta admire an Amurikan he-ro who would forego a valuable tax deduction like that just to make a point.
God bless you, Buckeye.

[maryrose]

Momto2
Your dog is so cute!
Anonamom
Hope your mom is on the mend.
Porch:
Tequila and Mary Rose don't mix

[JeanD]

JMH, if you are still around, thank you for those great links on the last thread (ship camo).

I had no idea! Shared them with my family, too, just because they were so interesting.

And, Janet, I couldn't agree more about retailers jumping all over the "causes." How about they just concentrate on doing a good job of being retailers, and leave their political positions out of it?

I don't go to a concert to hear some singer's politics, and I don't want to attend church at Kroger's either.

[windansea]

Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus on Saturday praised presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that his candidacy has turned the country “upside down.”

“I like what Donald has done,” he said in an interview with CBS’s “Sunday Morning.” “He’s turning America upside down, he’s awakening the country.

“We need a lot of that,” he added.

Nicklaus said that Trump’s “not stupid” and that he will eventually learn to be more polished like other politicians.

“I like the guy. He’s a good man and if he’s the one that’s on the ticket, I’ll be voting for him,” he said.

[lyle]

Been meaning to ask, daddy: you aren't EYEtalian, are you? I've ruled out EYEraqi and EYErani. 😀

[Gentlejim]

"My vote won’t decide the election."

I wonder if they've analyzed how that sentiment worked out in 2008.

[Captain Hate]

The Golden Bear > Jonah Goldberg

[Gentlejim]

Damn it!!!
2012

[daddy]

Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus on Saturday praised presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

My eye seems to be in tip-top shape this morning, gender-wise!

[lyle]

Both of them, daddy!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That 1:59 link from MM is a story from a parody site.
Target may be run by pinkos but they're not that stupid.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The Golden Bear > Jonah Goldberg

The Golden Boar = Jonah Goldberg.

I do understand a little math.

[Janet S.]

This is a cool idea - BIKE MINE: the ultimate alarm to protect your precious stuff

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/673350631/bike-mine-the-ultimate-alarm-to-protect-your-preci

It makes the thief think someone is shooting at him! Hah!

[Old Lurker]

But did you see the top picture, Lyle?

[Gentlejim]

Iggy's math grade for the day ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Centralcal on iPad]

Cool, Janet. Would be fun to install 2 or 3 on the bike to go off in succession and the thief would really think the owner was a crack shot!

[lyle]

What "top picture" are you referring to, OL? 😎

[Buckeye]

That 1:59 link from MM is a story from a parody site.
Target may be run by pinkos but they're not that stupid.

Still sending them my underwear. Being a good Amurikan and all.

[cheerleader]

One thing I DO NOT want to happen, is for Mr. Trump to become more "polished" like other politicians. Those polished (YAWN)politicians have made a big mess of things. Let Trump be Trump.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Did you get my pun there Gentlejim?

A boar is a male bear and also a homonym* for bore, which is what J. Goldberg has been for quite awhile, IMO.

*pronounced Gay-nym and sometimes LGBTQ-nym in Target stores.

[cheerleader]

I thought a boar was a male pig.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This is the ultimate bike alarm to make the thief think someone is shooting at him...

...cuz somebody is.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Correct in both cases, cheerleader.

[Jack is Back!]

Very late to this thread but I wanted to note that my very good friend and ex-associate was the President of the division of our old company that built Ivanpah. In fact, he was the main presenter during the opening ceremonies. He is of course, devasted how everything has turned out since he became a believer in energy production diversification but more a believer in the hefty gross margin building these things can earn:)

[Miss Marple 2]

News item, local.

Granddaughter just appeared in a "Bern, Baby, Bern" t-shirt she ordered on lone. For reasons unknown to me, it has a plane flying over the Capitol building rather than the White House.

She also has a bumper sticker. I told her she could put it on my car if I could put a Trump sticker on right next to it. Heh.

Sorry about the fake site post. I should have been more careful.

[Jack is Back!]

...devastated....not devasted....

[Porchlight]

maryrose,

Tequila and Porch don't mix very well, either. ;)

But I top mine with sparkling water to make them last longer!

[Marlene]

I've been following daddy's eye "issues". My husband's father was an optometrist and one of his memories of having his Dad's office downstairs is of patients calling at all hours. He remembers in particular the man who knocked at the front door one week-end day when the office was closed. The man had cut his face with his chainsaw and the poor guy's eyeball was hanging out of the socket. My husband yelled for his Dad,who sent the guy to the hospital. Hubby has a very distinct memory of that incident!

[Robin in the 10 Square Miles of Insanity]

Porch, (from last thread - catch up, sigh)

My extremely generous SIL brought it as a hostess gift last weekend. She got it from this place:

http://www.tamworthdistilling.com/2015/08/von-humboldts-natur-wasser/

It's named after a 19th century naturalist and explorer.

The margarita we made using that recipe I linked is simply divine. Definitely use the chili powder in the salt. I'll try that jalapeño syrup - I'm a big fan of mixed drinks.

[Robin in the 10 Square Miles of Insanity]

It's always a debate whether to have a margarita or a Moscow mule.

[anonamom]

Buford g, that is definitely an improvement for the bulk juicing--and in my price point and weight limit too!

My mom is enjoying the company of her baby--my youngest sister, and vital signs stable, oxygen saturation 97-98 on supplemental O2, which means she's gettign the fluid off her lungs.
I imagine they'll have the Oxygen off soon.

Drugs can be a good thing! Heart rates less than 100 are beautiful.

[Robin in the 10 Square Miles of Insanity]

MM,

That link about Clinton's amygdala was interesting. I've been thinking that I don't see how she weathers the coming Trump attacks. He is going to be relentless, and thank goodness.

[Marlene]

This morning I made a concoction of essential oils and aloe in an attempt to make insect repellant. I think it worked! I only have one mosquito bite. I used tea tree,lavender and peppermint in a little bit of aloe gel. I need to try some other essential oils to make the perfect mixture.

[clarice]

Bern's supporting little Debbie's opponent. Going to be harder and harder to peddle the line that it is the R's who are having a civil war.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/en/museums/humboldt-museum-schloss-tegel/

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/press-releases/schlafly-elected-national-delegate-mo-convention.html

[Porchlight]

Robin, thanks! I found that cordial on the web. It looks divine. Don't think I could find it here, though. Maybe I could infuse simple syrup with tamarind paste and strain it...

[JMHanes]

JeanD:

Glad you enjoyed the camo pix! I thought they were fascinating too.

Finally got a bunch of plants put out and.... it's hailing, natch. So I'm back inside, waiting for a lull in the thunderstorms to shower off all the insect repellant. Definitely feels like summer.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Sorry about the fake site post. I should have been more careful.--

I believed it and was ready to write a comment and just happened to click on the source page and found a few less believable ones. :)

[daddy]

So just who was the asshole that pissed MM off?

Posted by: Buckeye

buckeye,I've found it's getting impossible to keep track of who trampled on whom, and why, especially having missed some hunks here and there.

Posted by: anonamom
-------------------------
As I understand it, it all started when me and JCB made the entirely correct and truthful statement that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was the greatest American Musical genius since George Gershwin.

Miss Marple disagreed and when I called her a moron she pretended to LOL, but instead she was stewing and she took it out on Captain Hate, telling him he was an imbecile for liking Jazz over Mozart. This riled DrJ who linked some somnambulistic chloroform from Vladimir Horowitz, which prompted JimmyK to applaud and get his daughter piano Lessons (tho' he can't play a lick on a woodwind), which prompted somebody else to post some Jap guy playing a Les Paul with an antique Wah Wah pedal, and GUS dialed that to "11", then Porchlight tried to inject some sanity into the conflagration by linking to this, but Beasts said he was having none of it unless it involved tequila and Bar-B-Q music or some such, and then Dave in Ma launched a vicious shot across the bow with some slanderous bootleg Doo-Wop session, which riled up Buckeye's Pedal Steel lunacy, and prompted even more discordant links from Captain Hate to John Coltrane derivatives, which so outraged TC and Jane and everybody within a thousand miles of the Boston Pop's Orchestra that they bailed out angrily, and then I tried to bring you nutcase's back in with a little Jobim, but no, that didn't take, so then somebody linked to some cute gal banging away on a freakin' harp for Gawd's sake, and then somebody did the same thing for some Church Choir in Montana which I think I have to blame on MannyT or maybe JiB, but whomever, the whole damn thing snowballed from there and SBW wrote I think an Editorial about it but nobody read it, and then everybody bailed out in an angry huff bellowing Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit"

So all that said, if you morons will all just shut up for once and admit that Brian Wilson is the greatest American Musical Genius since George Gershwin, you will all be allowed back into JOM instantly, no questions asked, all will be forgiven, and lets just start rolling on with clean slates, happy hearts, and acid tongues into our glorious political future All Summer Long!

Jeff, (A)B, Verner, CecilT, CathyF, Agent J, Jane, Po'Farmer, Miss Marple, DoT Caro, MayBee, Melinda,* etc---"ally, ally in come free."

Please.

Pretty please...

[Miss Marple 2]

Oh, all right, daddy.

It's hard not to comment, but I did get my carpets cleaned!

I seriously was trying for self-improvement.

I guess I have improved enough.

[DrJ]

daddy, cute parody! I can stick to Rubinstein or Gilels, if you prefer. :)