太阳能热力发电站：耗资22亿美元的项目，10年关停啦。

这个老方法是有过一个同样太阳能热力发电原理的小规模实验项目：10MWe的Solar One实验数据是怎么说的？我记得很多年前经过，在15高速公路另一侧，去看过那座无人发电厂，还交$1留在门前的盒子里，换了一份Solar One的技术报告。联邦1.2亿+洛杉矶+爱迪生，一共1.4亿美元投资的5年计划，开建于1982年，试运行2年，正式发电3年。

30年后，国家“砸”这么大的钱财($2.2B for 400MWe)，连自己的关心的典型生态环保呼吁（飞鸟乌龟与排碳）也远没做到？

这是如何证实国家科学与智慧呢？

Power Plant Costs: In general, Thermal Solar is $4.7/W, But Ivanpha is $5.5/W, guess it is DOE itself the largest over-budget spender on this project?
Ivanpha has 50% building cost reduction comparing to its predecessor Solar One 40 years ago.

Actually it is not too bad, in comparison to other new-energy power plants (offshore wind and solar photovoltaic). However how does it exceeded twice more CO emission?

Well, Actually, natural gas is the way best.

Of course, we all know: lies, lies, all about specs. Statistics on typical power plant costs are here: