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[-] ascend@lemmy.radio 68 points 4 days ago

Oh neat like the ones outside Vegas, I always wonder if birds fly into the center

[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 119 points 4 days ago

Well they certainly don’t fly out of it

[-] ascend@lemmy.radio 11 points 4 days ago

The ones with cameras might, probably a big conspiracy

[-] inari@piefed.zip 44 points 4 days ago

Moths must love this shit

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 19 points 4 days ago

For like..... 0.002 seconds it's gotta feel real great

[-] suodrazah@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

At night?

[-] ascend@lemmy.radio 6 points 4 days ago

Curious how well it works with moon reflection

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

Technically still solar power, but with the moon as an additional mirror in the system.

[-] lurker2718@lemmings.world 18 points 4 days ago

A construction like this could never work with moonlight, not even theoretically. There is a nice xkcd about it: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

The sodium probably gets hot enough to keep glowing overnight

[-] errer@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

Sadly the ones outside Vegas are about to shut down because they are not profitable https://live-ier.pantheonsite.io/big-green/california-shuts-down-its-solar-thermal-plant-13-years-early/

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I love how fucking biased that article is. It mentions Obama like 10 times, including this gem:

Clearly, the Obama administration decided to spend taxpayer funds on a technology that was poorly conceived and quickly outdated.

Thanks for the hindsight, moron writer guy. So what's trump doing, investing in better renewables?

No, instead of building an underperforming power plant, he spent the same money just to prevent a power plant from being built.

Money for nothing and the chicks for free amirite.

[-] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I thought it was chips for free until my late twenties.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

When I was 7-8 (when the song was popular) I thought it was checks (cheques) for free. So I thought it wand money and checks (also money to a 7 y/o back when people paid with them at grocery stores still).

Didn’t realize it was chicks until the 90s when I became interested in chicks.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Free roast pidgeon for the workers

[-] drath@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Yeah, they do, and get incinerated, unfortunately. A few every day, actually. Which is one of the reasons those never took off. Besides big upfront costs for the tower generator, there are additional costs for maintaining the generator with moving parts, and then for scraping the dead birds off the mirrors to top it off. All just to save a few pennies on mirrors instead of just chucking a bunch of solar panels into a field and mostly forgetting about them.