75 MW spread over an area of 400 acres.
This is the peak daytime performance of the Solar One project in Nevada that was in the news recently.
It's producing a whopping 187.5 Kw per acre...which is simply laughable it's so ridiculous.
Seriously?
This is what they were crowing about in the news recently regarding the 'Future Of Solar Energy'??
Here's the problems;
1: It's efficiency-per-acre is absolutely atrocious, embarrassing and a waste of land.
2: The mirrors it relies on are delicate and require regular, and careful cleaning which is expensive.
3: The tracking the mirrors do of the sun is only along one axis, which is a bit efficiency loss right there.
4: It burns a large amount of natural gas to keep supplying power during off-peak hours...and likely also on days when something impedes solar collection.
5: It has NO redundancy in it's design at all.
6: It's cost-per-megawatt for construction = $266 million divided by 75 Mw is; $3,546,666.66
Those are just the major attractions regarding how catastrophically boondoggle-ridiculous it is, especially in light of The Blackwinter System.
Now, in the spirit of 'Put-Up or Shut-Up' we'll be actively approaching and interviewing investors until we find the right person or company to work with that fits with the ideals of our company. The goal is simple; Build a small, but fully functional Grid-Energizing facility in the 20 mw range with enough available land on it's site to be used for expansion utilizing profits from it's own revenue-positive operation.
That's right folks, this facility WILL NOT be accepting or operating under the Feed-In Tariff scheme like almost every other Solar and Wind based generating facility.
Once we get the facility built, and it'll be generating power as soon as it's one-fifth complete, we'll begin work immediately -or as 'immediately' as possible- on expanding it to demonstrate the true capability of The Blackwinter System to the world as well as research and development on other truly Clean and sustainable power systems in development right now in our R&D section as well as the various applications for electric vehicles that The Blackwinter System is ideally suited to meet the requirements of.
