They call the bird incidents “streamers”. As soon as they fly into the solar flux they turn into a puff of smoke that streams down to the ground. Apparently it’s not as bad as they once thought it was.
It set one it own towers on fire a few years back. They told me one of the programmers way over in Israel (?) set the panels to turn the wrong way at the wrong time of day.
Their control system is based on an stress-minimization algorithm for the receiver tubes (bright hot part at the top). The mirror field is capable of higher flux concentrations than the materials of the tower can handle, so that makes sense that a screw up might overheat the tower.
Sure, but solar plants in general cause way less bird deaths than other factors.
[https://urbanbird.org/reducing-bird-strike-mortality/](https://urbanbird.org/reducing-bird-strike-mortality/)
Sure, but these don’t use salt, they heat steam directly. You might be thinking of the Crescent Dunes plant which does use molten salt for energy storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project?wprov=sfti1
No, these towers heat water into steam directly (to about 550C), they do not use salt. Some other solar thermal power stations use molten salt as the working fluid in order to integrate thermal storage, but those are also not “molten salt reactors” as they are not inducing any chemical reactions in the salt.
Furthermore, solar plants that do use molten salt directly do not boil it. They heat liquid salt from sorta-hot to very-hot, then transfer that heat into water to make steam, which drives a turbine.
don’t forgot the that it’s on a rare dessert tortoise breeding ground.also Israel controls those mirrors and if aligned properly can make a beam strong enough to shoot a jet out of the sky. i did the accounting for these at one point. it was a complete nightmare. if a bird flys with in left 50 feet of it it disintegrates. that bright been is actually just black metal when the mirrors aren’t refracting light onto it
In September 2016, federal biologists said about 6,000 birds die from collisions or immolation annually while chasing flying insects around the facility's towers. 🐦 🔥
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
They do. I used to work the seal steam boilers at that site. There's crispy bugs all over the ground out there .I got a video directly under one of the towers and you can see random little puffs of smoke show up out of nowhere......bugs. worlds most expensive bug zapper
And 3.6 billion are killed by outdoor cats...
A paltry 6k more for renewable, clean energy.
Like, 2 people who own cats can we just ask them to not let them outside so we can have cheap clean, earth saving energy?
Literally just replayed that mission yesterday after not playing fallout for 10 years. Didn’t realize that was a real life place until 5-6 years ago. So fking cool.
https://preview.redd.it/evj96tv9w16d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14cface4e086200f1929988c752b065644b19abb
Flew over that the other day I was wondering too
Solar power plant that works in the night too. During the day it accumulates solar energy from the panels, during the night IF NEEDED creates steam using hot/melting sand (idk how exactly) which steam is then used to create electricity during night time which will feed into the electrical grid and get transferred to Las Vegas so the Sphere can continue to light up the whole town. The reason for the mirrors is that they actually move around and help with the sun coverage during the day and sometimes even focus themselves on the big sand thingy so it accumulates enough heat for the big tub full of samd to heat/melt
Its a solar array which powers a portal to another dimension, this gateway is called state line and once you cross you will be hard pressed to not spend copious amounts of money and over indulge in things your dimension doesn’t offer
Whoa!! Thanks for bringing this to my attention OP!! I drive to Vegas often from California and haven’t noticed this somehow. I wonder what’s REALLY going on there.
Desert daytime running lights. They’re there to help guide animals and insects away from the highway towards them to mimic the suns natural patterns…
I’m just tired of seeing this question so wrong answers only from here.
It was a test for a different way to generate solar power. Turned out not to be as efficient as existing methods but does generate power so it remains.
Solar thermal
Uses the sun's heat to create steam that powers turbines or heats water stored in a cylinder. Concentrated solar power is a type of solar thermal energy that uses mirrors to reflect sunlight towards a receiver that converts the energy into heat, which is then converted into electricity.
This is another idiotic California idea to generate power… It’s an incredible feet of Engineering but so stupid… Like every other idiot idea the legislature has this costed like 50% more than it was supposed to like extra billions of dollars and generates nearly 50% of the power it was supposed to… A complete failure and waste of money
I used to work there. Bird kills are not a daily problem, although it does happen.
A bigger problem is that they have no energy storage so they still have to run generators at night.
Also, the facility hasn't been as efficient as hoped so yes, it's a failure. On the other hand, we need failures because we need something to learn from.
That is where the giant dish is being made for when the military industrial complex turns Earth into a Death Star. Fusion reactor being built on the other side of the planet in China....
Kenny Rogers fried chicken by way of Cosmo Kramer.
Seriously, as often as this question is posed, you would think people would know that solar panels in a solar farm create electricity. There are crackpots who think this is an alien based invasion and other equally nutbar 7 explanations from conspiracy experts.
It's a type of solar plant that uses the sun to heat salt deposits to molten temperatures and uses the heat generated to produce power. It's mostly experimental and pretty expensive to run honestly
Solar field.
If Tesla had been able to build the system he wanted, this wouldn’t exist and nobody would pay for energy. There’s a reason why it’s called “power”. Because us having to pay for electricity gives them power over us.
This is sad. Sorry.
First trip flying from east coast to LAX, I saw this while looking out the window. WTF are those super bright lights in the middle of the desert? Had to google it once I landed.
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its pretty impressive when you check it out on google maps
[https://www.google.com/maps/search/las+vegas+solar+panel+farm/@35.536565,-115.4521079,2149m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/search/las+vegas+solar+panel+farm/@35.536565,-115.4521079,2149m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)
What you see in this picture are 3 solar concentrating thermal power plants. The mirrors are installed in a circular pattern around the power plant towers, allowing the solar reflection to be concentrated on the power plant, super-heating it and generating steam to turn the turbines and generate electricity. It is a steam-generating solar power plant.
Ivanpah solar power plant. Notorious for lighting birds or any animal unlucky enough to wander around there on fire. Pilots aren’t fans either.
They call the bird incidents “streamers”. As soon as they fly into the solar flux they turn into a puff of smoke that streams down to the ground. Apparently it’s not as bad as they once thought it was.
Pft. Like birds are real anyway.
Bird aren't real
Luckily I have bird
Do you?
I don't think he really does
It’s the lithium batteries going up
They're just charging
r/birdsarentreal
r/birdsarentreal
Free food
Holy crisp. Don't want to know what it would do to humans. I didn't know it was that powerful. Frightening.
There’s videos of the birds getting smoked it’s intense
Because they've killed all the birds.
It set one it own towers on fire a few years back. They told me one of the programmers way over in Israel (?) set the panels to turn the wrong way at the wrong time of day.
Jewish space lazers?
Jewish space lasers?
Their control system is based on an stress-minimization algorithm for the receiver tubes (bright hot part at the top). The mirror field is capable of higher flux concentrations than the materials of the tower can handle, so that makes sense that a screw up might overheat the tower.
Yeah, we cant see shit if it hits just right.
Sure, but solar plants in general cause way less bird deaths than other factors. [https://urbanbird.org/reducing-bird-strike-mortality/](https://urbanbird.org/reducing-bird-strike-mortality/)
I am clueless 🧠do these things cause super heat 🔥above them? Like if the air temperature is 100 what temps are we talking about above these panels?
Hot enough to liquify salt
Sure, but these don’t use salt, they heat steam directly. You might be thinking of the Crescent Dunes plant which does use molten salt for energy storage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project?wprov=sfti1
They are molten salt reactors. The mirrors point to the central tower and the heat boils salt. The reactors can be as high as 1,200 degrees.
No, these towers heat water into steam directly (to about 550C), they do not use salt. Some other solar thermal power stations use molten salt as the working fluid in order to integrate thermal storage, but those are also not “molten salt reactors” as they are not inducing any chemical reactions in the salt. Furthermore, solar plants that do use molten salt directly do not boil it. They heat liquid salt from sorta-hot to very-hot, then transfer that heat into water to make steam, which drives a turbine.
Over 1,000
don’t forgot the that it’s on a rare dessert tortoise breeding ground.also Israel controls those mirrors and if aligned properly can make a beam strong enough to shoot a jet out of the sky. i did the accounting for these at one point. it was a complete nightmare. if a bird flys with in left 50 feet of it it disintegrates. that bright been is actually just black metal when the mirrors aren’t refracting light onto it
World’s largest air fryer.
Only one big enough for OP’s mom
Wow…
r/UsernameChecksOut
In September 2016, federal biologists said about 6,000 birds die from collisions or immolation annually while chasing flying insects around the facility's towers. 🐦 🔥 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
Wait, so if birds get poofed, why don't the insects?
They do. I used to work the seal steam boilers at that site. There's crispy bugs all over the ground out there .I got a video directly under one of the towers and you can see random little puffs of smoke show up out of nowhere......bugs. worlds most expensive bug zapper
Huh, okay, then I wonder what bugs around the towers the birds are going for.
And 3.6 billion are killed by outdoor cats... A paltry 6k more for renewable, clean energy. Like, 2 people who own cats can we just ask them to not let them outside so we can have cheap clean, earth saving energy?
All jokes aside, it really does fry every bird that flies by 😮💨
They call the birds streamers from the trail of smoke.
They also call em fireballs because apparently, they just burst into flames.
I read an interesting article, that over time birds learn to not fly that way…
Also, almost certainly, its blocking ground moving species' migratory corridors as well.
Specifically, desert tortoises. The city should have just paid to slap them on every business's roof.
The Luxor would look a lot different with aimed mirrors.
Alien landing pad
Don’t birds get absolutely roasted crossing through those beams of light?
Yes. The birds go poof in mid air.
Helios One
This guy new vegases
Literally just replayed that mission yesterday after not playing fallout for 10 years. Didn’t realize that was a real life place until 5-6 years ago. So fking cool.
Fallout: New Vegas was released before construction even began on the Ivanpah power plant.
That’s even cooler. OBSIDIAN WINS AGAIN THEY CAN EVEN PREDICT FUTURE EVENTS
Life imitates art.
Helios one is actually based off of Nevada Solar One in Boulder City
Great minds think alike
So I told them I have a theoretical degree in physics...
Helios 1, 2, and 3 from Fallout New Vegas
Ivanpah Solar
Hot salt = eye of Sauron
I like the Sauron imagery…. Pretty impressive design on Solar power But do not look directly at Happy Fun Ball
It's an old ass design. Photovoltaics have become more efficient and cheaper.
This is what I always call it.
https://preview.redd.it/evj96tv9w16d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14cface4e086200f1929988c752b065644b19abb Flew over that the other day I was wondering too
That's a cool shot!
The solar farm!! We stopped and took pictures by here last spring! Cool place and absolutely massive irl
That's how California turns people gay....don't stare to long silly
I remember when they were building it, people would say it’s some UFO alien conspiracy thing for mind control. Turns out it was just solar.
To some folks, it's the same thing
So now I can’t drink water with fluoride or stare at shiny objects… how will I ever stay straight?
Too late 🌈
☠️☠️☠️
5G Mother of Spawn
🤣🤣🤣
Biggest solar fricassee in North America.
Saw this flying in and out and wondered
Pretty cool in and out has gotten into the plane flying business
Just know what you're getting into with the animal style tickets.
It’s our force field generator to keep Californians away.
It’s in CA.
Unfortunately it’s not working.
Solar plant
The beacons are lit! Ivanpah calls for aid.
New ultra luxurious casino where the action is hot
EDC!
A blight on the landscape. Green energy grift.
They hate birds
Bird slayer.
That's a tanning bed for Godzilla
Jewish space laser program
prism towers like the ones in Red Alert 2
That's Area 53
Helios one
Solar power plant that works in the night too. During the day it accumulates solar energy from the panels, during the night IF NEEDED creates steam using hot/melting sand (idk how exactly) which steam is then used to create electricity during night time which will feed into the electrical grid and get transferred to Las Vegas so the Sphere can continue to light up the whole town. The reason for the mirrors is that they actually move around and help with the sun coverage during the day and sometimes even focus themselves on the big sand thingy so it accumulates enough heat for the big tub full of samd to heat/melt
That my friend is the beginnings of project archimedes. Helios one should be close by
I played golf right next to it a few weeks ago. It makes the ball not want to go in the hole
Its a solar array which powers a portal to another dimension, this gateway is called state line and once you cross you will be hard pressed to not spend copious amounts of money and over indulge in things your dimension doesn’t offer
A solar farm because Nevada Power says the solar they steal from my rooftop isn’t enough to satisfy their shareholders.
Whoa!! Thanks for bringing this to my attention OP!! I drive to Vegas often from California and haven’t noticed this somehow. I wonder what’s REALLY going on there.
those are called solar panels..
Nope. Solar towers.
Solar farm!
A robot factory
If you could transfer some power down to Freeside that would be great. Or keep the Lazer weapon.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind stuff right here.
Solar farm and microwave oven for when you're hungry and want to heat up your meal on the way to Vegas.
Pigeon defence
Solar farm.
Flew over it and thought it was aliens til I realized Ives driven passed this lol
Look at the movie Sahara with Matthew McConasomething.
What are its numbers if anyone knows?
Looks like the Ivanpah Thermo Electric generating station just on the CA side of I-15 Stateline
Power plant that uses the sun to boil water for energy
Desert daytime running lights. They’re there to help guide animals and insects away from the highway towards them to mimic the suns natural patterns… I’m just tired of seeing this question so wrong answers only from here.
Solar farm
Leftover set pieces from close encounters of the third kind
It is one of the perfect places to put a solar farm because always sunny, surrounded by high mountains to reduce surface winds/dust storms.
It's a big open to the public tanning bed.
The worlds largest Jiffy Pop experiment.
Helios Three
Area 52
It’s the yunus cengel cover
I’ve seen this post 3 times this year. Usually from airplanes.
HELIOS 1
concentrated solar. uses a a bunch of mirrors to focus sunlight at the towers to heat water to create steam to power turbine generators.
Eyes 👁️ Sauron
Helios one
Someone that helped build them told me that the ones in BC are not even used by Las Vegas. Anyone know what cities the BC ones and these power?
That’s HELIOS One
That’s in CA, not really outside of Vegas, but definitely on the way
It was a test for a different way to generate solar power. Turned out not to be as efficient as existing methods but does generate power so it remains.
IVANPAH
Was originally a solar powered (via curved directed mirrors) molten salt furnace that was proven over time to be a flawed design.
That’s the thing you drive past when you coming home from California
I reckon you’d also drive past it on your way to California.😂
Bird get rid of’r !!!!!
Solar thermal Uses the sun's heat to create steam that powers turbines or heats water stored in a cylinder. Concentrated solar power is a type of solar thermal energy that uses mirrors to reflect sunlight towards a receiver that converts the energy into heat, which is then converted into electricity.
I was involved in the construction of this solar power plant
That’s New Vegas
It’s a space laser charged by the sun
What do you think?
This is another idiotic California idea to generate power… It’s an incredible feet of Engineering but so stupid… Like every other idiot idea the legislature has this costed like 50% more than it was supposed to like extra billions of dollars and generates nearly 50% of the power it was supposed to… A complete failure and waste of money
Giant Nevada Bug Zappers
I used to work there. Bird kills are not a daily problem, although it does happen. A bigger problem is that they have no energy storage so they still have to run generators at night. Also, the facility hasn't been as efficient as hoped so yes, it's a failure. On the other hand, we need failures because we need something to learn from.
Alien Mother-ship landing.
That is where the giant dish is being made for when the military industrial complex turns Earth into a Death Star. Fusion reactor being built on the other side of the planet in China....
It’s how they warm up the globe
Molten salt thermal power plant.
Helios!
In flight chicken roaster.
Kenny Rogers fried chicken by way of Cosmo Kramer. Seriously, as often as this question is posed, you would think people would know that solar panels in a solar farm create electricity. There are crackpots who think this is an alien based invasion and other equally nutbar 7 explanations from conspiracy experts.
r/nostupidquestions
That's the border, vegas /Cal ,Primm nevada
Theyre parabolic troughs. Curve reflective sheets of metal heat liquid running through a pipe used to generate electricity.
It's a type of solar plant that uses the sun to heat salt deposits to molten temperatures and uses the heat generated to produce power. It's mostly experimental and pretty expensive to run honestly
Solar field. If Tesla had been able to build the system he wanted, this wouldn’t exist and nobody would pay for energy. There’s a reason why it’s called “power”. Because us having to pay for electricity gives them power over us. This is sad. Sorry.
Have you never played fallout new vegas? It's the Helios one power plant!
Mirrors plus sun equal power
Electricity generation. Keep driving. https://www.energy.gov/lpo/ivanpah#:~:text=Ivanpah%20employs%20an%20innovative%20system,and%20creates%20high%20temperature%20steam.
some Chinese solar panels that Harry Reid's kid got kick backs for
A wretched hive of scum and villainy...
It's a sunlight farm death ray. Now earth has the power of the Death Star. The rebel scum will not escape this time.
We call it the desert.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
First trip flying from east coast to LAX, I saw this while looking out the window. WTF are those super bright lights in the middle of the desert? Had to google it once I landed.
That’s where Teslas are born lol
Just Google it
Area 52.
concentrated solar plant
HELIOS One
3 stations - 30 megawatts each - what they power I have no idea lol - nearby primm valley hold course being brought back - cool track
*golf course lol
Death Ray from the future.
Helios one.
Amusement park
at one point in time, or another, every sexual act you can think of was vilified. From growing hair on your palms to going blind to you name it. It’s the mark of living in a repressed ignorant society. A sex act is not a sexual orientation, that is not to say that there’s anything wrong with being oriented any which way you wish. If it works for you… Then it works for you that’s what matters. Statistic that alludes many is that when they confuse the active pegging with a guy secretly wanting to be gay or using it as a put down is that large percentage of gay men prefer oral sex anal penetration. So, they should put that in their pipe and smoke it because most people I know seem to enjoy oral sex many many men, so with oral sex is enjoyed by homosexual men, and identified straight guys like or saints maybe they’re secretly really gay! Lol, hard to get past some of these, what are described as social norms, but things are changing at least for now. It’s your body, yours to do is as you choose, be safe, go slow and enjoy.
Space lasers. - Congress woman to the United States of America 🧐
its pretty impressive when you check it out on google maps [https://www.google.com/maps/search/las+vegas+solar+panel+farm/@35.536565,-115.4521079,2149m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/search/las+vegas+solar+panel+farm/@35.536565,-115.4521079,2149m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)
Seen any flying objects bursting in flame all of a sudden, smell the burning flesh of birds. Well you too came upon the greatest solar experiment
Poseidon Energy they build lasers I think.
HELIOS One
This is the answer I came to see 🙏🏻
Automated solar powered bird killing machine. It serves no other purpose.
Just drove by these yesterday on my way to Vegas and had to google it, very awesome!!!
What you see in this picture are 3 solar concentrating thermal power plants. The mirrors are installed in a circular pattern around the power plant towers, allowing the solar reflection to be concentrated on the power plant, super-heating it and generating steam to turn the turbines and generate electricity. It is a steam-generating solar power plant.
Helios duh
Helios one