Gallery of the Day: Bird's-eye view of Google's solar thermal plant
Here's an incredible aerial series by photographer Jamey Stillings of Google's ambitious solar farm project currently under construction in California's Mojave Desert. It's called the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, and when it's complete toward the end of 2013 it promises to do all these things.
Stillings started photographing the ISEGS back in 2010 before its construction and plans to carry on until it's finished. At that point, he indicates, he plans for it to be an exhibit and maybe a book — and what wonderful photos that book will contain.
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The site before construction in Oct. 2010. (Photo Credit: Jamey Stillings)
Months later, excavation crews work at Solar Field Two in Jan. 2011. (Photo Credit: Jamey Stillings)
A year later, crews install heliosats in Solar Field One in Jan. 2012. (Photo Credit: Jamey Stillings)
A closer look at the heliostats of Solar Field One, and how work is being done not to greatly alter the desert terrain around the field in Jan. 2012. (Photo Credit: Jamey Stillings)
On the ground, crews attach a heliosat to a pylon in June 2012. (Photo Credit: Jamey Stillings)
Solar Field One in Oct. 2012. (Photo Credit: Jamey Stillings)
