How Mirrors Could Solve our Energy Problem

Woah! Ivanpah didn't get shut down and decommissioned? They had so many problems with that plant during the beginning. CSP can be great... But typically isn't. It takes a lot of land, preferably wide and flat and free of vegetation. And there is typically a lot of water usage. Which is a problem because the largest use case is in areas that don't have a lot of water availability.
They are however relatively cheap to produce... Unless you are Ivanpah, but that is an issue for the designers and regulators rather than a tech problem making it expensive. But that affordability comes at the cost of large tracts of land and water consumption.
Still neat and good tech. It is especially good when paired with other things like pasture or farm land underneath... But that raises the costs considerably when you lift it off the ground that far. But CSP is an important part of the mix. No replacement for our need of nuclear, but I'd much rather have it as part of the mix than not.

Glad the Toyota thing is done... That is a frustrating company and problematic tech.