[getsmart-l] BBC E-mail: Power station harnesses Sun's rays

[Gloria Boxen]

Re solar thermal energy - See the company's website:
http://www.solarmillennium.de/

Generating energy by concentrating solar rays to heat
a liquid (which goes on to produce steam that drives
turbines) is old hat in the U.S., particularly Nevada.

http://www.solartoday.org/2007/mar_apr07/nevada_solar_one.htm
http://www.stirlingenergy.com/products.asp?Type=solar

For other links see
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_energy_concentrated.htm

Solar concentration to heat water for federal prison
in Arizona,
http://www.industrialsolartech.com/trghtech.htm 
(1999)


Gloria Boxen

--- John O'Gorman <jcogorman at sympatico.ca> wrote:


> Subject: BBC E-mail: Power station harnesses Sun's
> rays
> 
> 
> ** Power station harnesses Sun's rays ** 
> The BBC's David Shukman reports from Europe's first
> commercial power station powered by the Sun.
> <
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6616651.stm
> >
> 
> It is Europe's first commercially operating power
> station using the Sun's energy this way and at the
> moment its operator, Solucar, proudly claims that it
> generates 11 Megawatts (MW) of electricity without
> emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas. 
> 
>        
>       David had to wear sunglasses to shield his
> eyes from the glare 
> 
> Ultimately, the entire plant should generate as much
> power as is used by the 600,000 people of Seville. 
> 
> It works by focusing the reflected rays on one
> location, turning water into steam and then blasting
> it into turbines to generate power. 
> 
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