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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2602869" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/23/solar-inconvenient-truth-ivanpah-plant-top-fossil-fuel-burner/" target="_blank">Solar Inconvenient Truth: Ivanpah Plant a Big Fossil Fuel User</a>The <a href="http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/ivanpah-solar-project#.WIZTb_krIyU" target="_blank">BrightSource Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility,</a> which uses 320,000 mirrors to create thermal energy, still qualifies under state rules as an alternative energy source, despite using about 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, according to a <a href="http://www.pe.com/articles/plant-823670-gas-ivanpah.html" target="_blank">report</a> by the Press Telegram.&nbsp;Ivanpah is designated as a renewable source because it uses 352,000 mirrors to reflect sunlight onto three thermal boilers at the top of large towers. That, in turn, creates steam power that causes huge electric turbines to spin to generate electricity. But Ivanpah claims that natural gas must be burned at night and during overcast days as a maintenance requirement to heat the towers and keep the turbines online. It also claims this hybrid solution improves the length of time and the amount of solar electricity generated each day. Critics now refer to the hybrid plant as another fossil fuel scam.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2602869, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/23/solar-inconvenient-truth-ivanpah-plant-top-fossil-fuel-burner/"]Solar Inconvenient Truth: Ivanpah Plant a Big Fossil Fuel User[/URL] [SIZE=5][B]The [URL='http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/ivanpah-solar-project#.WIZTb_krIyU']BrightSource Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility,[/URL] which uses 320,000 mirrors to create thermal energy, still qualifies under state rules as an alternative energy source, despite using about 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, according to a [URL='http://www.pe.com/articles/plant-823670-gas-ivanpah.html']report[/URL] by the [I]Press Telegram.[/I][/B][/SIZE] Ivanpah is designated as a renewable source because it uses 352,000 mirrors to reflect sunlight onto three thermal boilers at the top of large towers. That, in turn, creates steam power that causes huge electric turbines to spin to generate electricity. But Ivanpah claims that natural gas must be burned at night and during overcast days as a maintenance requirement to heat the towers and keep the turbines online. It also claims this hybrid solution improves the length of time and the amount of solar electricity generated each day. Critics now refer to the hybrid plant as another fossil fuel scam. [/QUOTE]

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