Tagged with Solar Thermal Power 
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Nuke it
Lamar Alexander loves the earth too much to support solar and wind 12
Posted 2 months ago
One of the few Congressional Republicans who talks about the need to address climate change makes an interesting argument against wind and solar energy. It's a bogus argument, but still interesting.
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also, great tapas
Tales from Spain: baseload renewable energy means hope in the fight against global warming 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks agoWhile in Spain to explain the California solar market to local solar companies, I took a side trip to Sanlucar la Mayor, near Sevilla, to tour Abengoa’s big solar facility. Holy moly. Muy impressive.
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The power of water
French government interested in solar because it uses less water than nukes 1
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks agoA year or so ago, I spoke at a solar conference in France -- a country that produces 78 percent of its electricity with nukes. A couple of folks told me that the government's interest in solar stemmed from the fact that during the previous summer's heat wave, river levels dropped to the point that they didn't have enough water to cool the reactors.
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U.S. left in the solar dust
Solar PV market doubled to 6 Gigawatts in 2008 0
Posted 8 months ago
After growing 19 percent in 2006 and 62 percent in 2007, world solar photovoltaic (PV) market installations exploded by 110 percent last year to a staggering 5.95 GW, according to Solarbuzz's Annual Report, Marketbuzz 2009:
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Sheer number of solar advancements suggests that cheap solar electricity is coming soon 0
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Solar hot water heating’s day in the sun 4
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Biggest California utility contracts for world’s biggest solar power deal 12
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Biggest California utility contracts for world’s biggest solar power deal 23
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International energy group criticized for congenital ignorance and pessimism about renewables 1
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Small solar needs long-distance transmission as much as big wind 30
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World’s biggest solar power tower to open in Spain 11
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Solar’s bright ideas for the green stimulus package 4
Posted 11 months ago -
They all crush ‘clean coal’: Stanford study, part 1 8
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago -
Create jobs, cut emissions, and reduce oil imports by investing in renewables and energy efficiency 0
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago -
A roundup of reports I ought to read but in reality have only skimmed 0
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Solar baseload outshines ‘clean coal’—and it always will 0
Posted 12 months ago -
A concentrated solar BACT for new coal? 4
Posted 1 year ago -
Not investment advice 1
Posted 1 year ago -
A potentially game-changing development in concentrated solar PV 1
Posted 1 year ago -
Converting to Utilitarian Universalism
Fossil-fuel power plants in U.S. to test using some solar energy 0
Posted 1 year ago