Most of the readers of the August body will know the name Solyndra. For those that don’t, it was the failed Green pet project of the Community Con Artist masquerading as American President, Barack Obama and it cost the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
That is nothing compared to the newest Green disaster, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Ivanpah was the wet dream of the Green Raw Deal. A massive solar powered facility that took advantage of the Sun’s (free) warming rays to provide unlimited electric power (that could then be sold to consumers at a profit) without the icky, nasty, planet killing effects of those horrible fossil fuels.
Located near the California / Nevada border on 3500 acres of public land, the Solar Power Monstrosity (as critics labelled it) was bordered by both State and federal Parks and Preserves.”
More than $2.18 BILLION was sunk into this Green idiocy, much of it in the way of taxpayer funds, Federal Loan Guarantees and State Tax credits only to watch it all go up in metaphorical smoke.
After over a decade of failures and costs overruns, the Ivanpah Solar Power Clusterfuck is being closed.
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Not only did Ivanpah fail to provide the promised power, but it seems it did enormous damage to the environment and the wildlife it was supposed to protect.
It destroyed acres and acres of desert habitat by covering it up with massive solar panels. Solar panels that generated so much heat in the form of radiation that they literally fried birds in mid flight and roasted tortoises in their shells as they plodded along the desert floor.
Well done Greenies! Billions of dollars, countless birds, an unknown number of tortoises and 3500 acres of pristine wilderness all burned up in a misplaced farcical devotion to save the planet.
They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
If that’s true then the road to Ivanpah is paved with utter fucking stupidity.
Nominated by General Cuntster, proof reader extraordinaire.
