Amargosa Valley - Solar Millennium

Explosion Dangers of Solar Thermal

At the Bureau of Land Management scoping meeting held August 18 in the town of Amargosa Valley, Nevada, we were handed these sheets by a local resident. She told us she lives a mile from the boundary of what would become a huge industrial solar thermal power plant using parabolic trough mirrors that collect heat from sunlight in tubes containg the synthetic oil Therminol. In 1999 a similar solar plant using a similar heat transfer oil exploded, causing a large fire. Residents of Amargosa Valley worry a similar accident could endanger their school, town, and residences. See our story on the BLM scoping meeting >>here.

 

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