Moths must love this shit
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ascend@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
Oh neat like the ones outside Vegas, I always wonder if birds fly into the center
inari@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Wakmrow@hexbear.net 1 day ago
For like… 0.002 seconds it’s gotta feel real great
suodrazah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At night?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
The sodium probably gets hot enough to keep glowing overnight
ascend@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
Curious how well it works with moon reflection
lurker2718@lemmings.world 20 hours 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/
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Technically still solar power, but with the moon as an additional mirror in the system.
errer@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Sadly the ones outside Vegas are about to shut down because they are not profitable …pantheonsite.io/…/california-shuts-down-its-sola…
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 20 hours 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Clearly, the Obama administration decided to spend taxpayer funds on a technology that was poorly conceived and quickly outdated.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. Now how about we replace all those heliostats with modern solar panels? Sounds like a great opportunity…
Count042@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
I thought it was chips for free until my late twenties.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 12 hours 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.
drath@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.
fullsquare@awful.systems 17 hours ago
big advantage is that molten salt allows for energy storage for nighttime
drath@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
But then you also have to re-heat it in the morning with combustibles to kickstart the generation again.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Free roast pidgeon for the workers
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah, but that secretly a lazer weapon.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Well they certainly don’t fly out of it
ascend@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
The ones with cameras might, probably a big conspiracy