IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for ...

Butner created a “Scenic Lake Dairy Queen” refrigerator magnet two years ago. It is the most popular of the 20 or so ...

Ivanpah uses 173,500 mirrors to reflect sunlight onto boilers at the top of tall towers. The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, once the world's largest of its type, located in San Bernardino County ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

Power plant operator and co-owner NRG Energy Inc. is preparing to close down part of its Ivanpah Solar Power Plant in San Bernardino County, Calif., a little more than 11 years after it began ...

The dried lakebed is generating polluted dust from agricultural runoff, impacting nearby communities. A newly published study ...

A gusty and dry weather pattern has prompted both a Lake Wind Advisory and a Red Flag Warning across the Midlands today, creating hazardous conditions for boaters and increasing wildfire concerns.

Mni Wakan was said to be mistranslated by white settlers, who recorded it as "Devils Lake," though Spirit Lake was the more accurate translation.

The Ivanpah plant used CSP technology. This groundbreaking approach culminated in 173,500 heliostats, which are mirrors mounted onto pylons that follow the sun, concentrating on boilers atop three 450 ...