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This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...
Media Matters for America1mon
What right-wing media didn’t say about an ill-fated solar project in the Mojave desert
a controversial concentrated solar thermal project in California’s Mojave Desert. Ivanpah is losing its contract because it could not compete with other types of solar projects, like ...
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...
Sydney Morning Herald1mon
One of the world’s weirdest cruises is in the heart of a desert
It covers 640 square kilometres when full, stretching its spindly arms 180 kilometres across the Mojave Desert ... ghosts lurk beneath add to the sheer strangeness of the cruise.
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Desert Hot Springs man accused of embezzling over $300,000 from Mojave Desert Land Trust
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (KESQ) - A Desert Hot Springs man was arrested after being accused of embezzling over $300,000 from his former employer, the Mojave Desert Land Trust. Ernesto Jose Frias Ybarra ...