Thursday marked the grand opening of Ivanpah - the first-of-it’s-kind large scale solar thermal plant. But was it worth the cost and is this really where our future is headed?
We live in the age of startups, fledgling companies in search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups are subject to high rates of failure, and venture capitalists assume significant risk when investing in these companies. The solar industry, an industry that may be considered akin to a startup relative to other established fossil-fuel energy sources, is equally subject to failure... So why are some politicians so eager to point this out?