<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Solar thermal expected to double every 16 months for the next five years]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by timbuktu http://www.grist.org/article/solar-baseload-update/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:45:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/solar-baseload-update/1 the real solution

So much press is given right now to all the nano-solar, thin-film solar, etc solutions being touted on the geekosphere (I use that term endearingly), so it's nice to see piece about the larger end of solar. Small-scale is of course hugely important to increasing efficiency and conservation, but there's got to be some baseload to power the grid. Concentrator solar is the way to go here. Probably the best efficiency I have come across in this department is the SolFocus Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) system.

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So much press is given right now to all the nano-solar, thin-film solar, etc solutions being touted on the geekosphere (I use that term endearingly), so it's nice to see piece about the larger end of solar. Small-scale is of course hugely important to increasing efficiency and conservation, but there's got to be some baseload to power the grid. Concentrator solar is the way to go here. Probably the best efficiency I have come across in this department is the SolFocus Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) system.

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