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California solar plant greeted with fanfare, doubts about future

2014-02-13 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: One of the world's largest solar projects, which uses heat from the sun to generate power in California, opened on Thursday but may be the last of its kind in The Golden State. Sprawling across 3,500 acres in the Mojave desert near the California-Nevada border, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar thermal power plant has more than 300,000 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto boilers housed in the top of three towers, each of which is 150 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty. The sun heats water inside...

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