Next time you find yourself in a grocery store, go look at the freezer section and the fish counter, and see if they have Orange Roughy. If you don’t see it, that’s good. Don’t ask for it, or they’ll think you want it.
Thanks to the recent dedication of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS), the corresponding scathing article in the Wall Street Journal, and Dan Kammen and Tonio Buonassisi’s appearance on NPR’s On Point, Ivanpah and solar energy in general has been back in the news. ISEGS is a concentrating solar plant (CSP) driven by technology from BrightSource Energy: it uses mirrors to reflect the sun’s light to the top of…