2017_08_19_eclipsetrip03 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
2017_08_19_eclipsetrip03 / dsearls
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | <a href="http://twitter.com/brightsource's Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, below Clark Mountain in California's Mojave Desert near the western end of the great Basin and Range Province, near Primm on the Nevada border. (Primmis where travelers stop if they just can't wait to gamble, with Las Vegas still 45 minutes away.) As it happens we passed this on our way from Santa Barbara to watching the solar eclipse in an even less populated part of central Wyoming two days later.The facility occupies 4000 acres of desert (not counting the passive solar panel spread nearby), or the Primm Valley Golf Club, a square 18-hole golf course next to I-15, from which this series was shot). It produces a max of 392 megawatts and cost $2.2 billion to build. It is perhaps the most anomalous and arresting man-made landmark one will encounter anywhere in the West, whether spotted from the sky or the ground. In daylight it is visible to planes hundreds of miles away.Light is reflected by mirrors at the tops of "power towers" where water is heated to steam turning the largest turbines of their kind. Most of the water is recovered. Each "heliostat" mirror is 75.6 square feet, and there are 173,500 of them in the facility.On the list of the world's largest solar power generating stations, three are in the Mojave Desert, and Ivanpah is #1.And sure looked like it. Wow. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-08-19 11:02:43 |
| 撮影者 | dsearls , Santa Barbara, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D Mark III , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/9.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 93 mm |