We recently visited family in Chicago. Flying out, we had a clear view of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mohave Desert.
It’s made up of the three glowing pillars out in the desert. They’re very much relics from a lost civilization. Hardly a decade old, the three towers and the 347,000 mirrors that make their water boil will close next year. They were built in a very different economic moment, when solar panels were exponentially more expensive than they are today.
