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Wow, looks awesome. Has anyone visited, by any chance?
by 0xdada 8y ago
Wow, looks awesome. Has anyone visited, by any chance?
- elago 8y agoI've got to visit something similar at Sandia National Labs. https://energy.sandia.gov/energy/renewable-energy/solar-energy/csp-2/nsttf/ https://energy.sandia.gov/energy/renewable-energy/solar-ener... (The video at about 6 minutes shows cool footage of spaceship material being tested) I got to see it just as a tour, I don't work in that field and don't know how it compares to the Odeillo solar furnace.
- colinb 8y agoThere's a group of three such power stations near Las Vegas. I passed them on the way from LA a few months ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility I don't know if they permit visitors. There's something odd about the way the light makes the air glow near them. From a distance, they look unearthly; almost CGI'd.
- ryandvm 8y agoSaw this installation on a documentary a few weeks ago. Unsurprisingly the thing is capable of instantly frying any bird that happens to fly though the beams.
- matthberg 8y agoI wish I had, I just finished up a month working in the area (Osseja) this summer, always wondering what that big shiny thing was on the hill across the valley. Turns out I was 18km away from this really cool structure, what a small world feeling figuring out what it was here.