Hinckley

The remains are still there in Hinckley, Utah. The Delta Solar R&D Project stared as a technological avant-garde experiment and became a scheme fraud. In 2018, the company that produced those “futuristic” plastic lenses was fined 50 million dollars, the company’s revenue despite zero results.

The image of abandoned poles and lenses has become a sort of monument to the environmental damage that even clean energy sources could create if related to badly conceived project.

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    By: ONE Team

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