While the 377-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System is a star among the solar community, the project recently got to be a star in another way. The Denver-based rock band, The Fray, used the monolithic solar project as the background for their latest video “Love Don’t Die,” which features a kaleidoscope of swirling images as the band walks across the sparse desert land and among Ivanpah’s heliostats. The heliostats reflect the sun’s thermal energy onto the central towers of Ivanpah where the sun’s concentrated thermal energy super-heats water into steam that’s then used to produce electricity similar to a conventional steam turbine system.
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