It would make sense.
Thermal concentrator cost is basically fixed: mirrors of a specific quality, tracking mounts, an eye of sauron cooling loop. That tech doesn’t change.
But the bulk of photovoltaic installation cost is the panels. And those get exponentially cheaper.
tryitout@infosec.pub 1 day ago
If you mean the Vegas one, then yes it’s closing, don’t know if it’s gone bankrupt exactly.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I think that’s what they called a First Generation generator.
The ones in use now will actually use sunlight to melt salt (than then is used to generate steam) rather than directly generating the steam which has way more capacity to store heat, so they have a solar conversion efficiency of between 38% and 44%, plus the molten salt can keep on being used to generate steam during the night until it cools down enough.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Well that makes no sense, I need it shut down to get Euclid’s C-Finder to work.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
No worry. Just throw a bug report at Bethesda, wait a few years for them to do diddly squat, bitch on all forums and then wait until a modder fixes it.