Obama’s legacy isn’t limited to the racial division he stoked with his community activist tactics. He was also a pioneer in the wasting of massive amounts of money on green energy boondoggles. Fortunately, that legacy is getting rolled back. The closing of the Ivanpah Solar Plant after only 11 years is a milestone:

The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for clean energy, its power has been struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies.

Leave alone cheaper non-solar technologies like nuclear and fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises.

The plant’s giant mirrors incinerated birds in the sky, presumably including eagles.

As noted at Watts Up With That,

Ivanpah is a shining (literally) example of what happens when ideology replaces sound economic and engineering principles. It was never about producing reliable, cost-effective energy. It was about making a grand, symbolic gesture in the fight against climate change. And as with most grand, symbolic gestures, reality eventually caught up.

The important thing is that moonbats meant well and signaled virtue. No doubt the climate appreciates the gesture.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.