Gauges

Pressure and temperature.

Moonlight trial

Testing the mirrors at night.

From up on high.

Looking down from the top of the tank.

It's that time of year

Turkey frying season.

Icicles

James with an icicle from the frozen propane tank.

Not good

When you see the bottom of these.

Frozen tank

When you turn propane from liquid to gas you freeze the tank.

Sunrise

I'm seeing more than I normally would.

Owl

That was almost road kill.

Lasers

Using them to align the mirrors.

Where's ya bin ?

Sunset mirror II

Flexible pipe

Oversize load

Prison bus

Black widow

In the garage.

From the hill

In amongst the almond trees.

Funhouse mirrors

Reflected shadow

Spotted

On the side of the road.

Oops

That's 7 years bad luck.

Halloween chips

Unloading the tank

Moving mirrors

Evaporator close up

Transfers the heat from the hot oil and heats the water to make steam.

Empty shed

Well, almost empty.

Sunrise mirrors

Sunrise crane

Ready for unloading.

Revved up,

And ready to go. 3am Tuesday morning.

Leaving an empty shed

And the same with the tank.

Moving the engines

Out. Up and over, and onto the truck. 

More work photos.

Mirrors. 

Factory panorama. 

Balcony view

:(

No it's not fog, it's plastic so they can spray paint it. 

First mirror

On the trough at our beta test site.  (you can see the sun reflecting onto the top of the tower to the right.)

Work related photos

Large weld. The angled piece is 100mm (4") wide. 

Oil and water emulsion oozing out of the condenser pipe. 

The evaporator, it heats water with hot oil warmed by the sun.  

Tube bundle, this is what the hot oil flows through.  

Red paint !!

When a man dies
His portraits change.
His eyes look at you
Differently and his lips smile
A different smile. I noticed this
Returning from a poet’s funeral.
Since then I have seen it verified
Often and my theory is true.

– Anna Akhmatova, 1940

Inside the tank.

And the steam wafting out of it. 

Scottish word of the week

Blether : (ble-thir)
one who chatters incessantly; one who babbles on and on; ("That wee yin o' yours is awfy blether gettin'") -v
conversation, long winded or idle talk; ("Ah met yer granny doon the toun, we hud a richt guid blether the gither")