New, clean solar power...check out the video...

[Squatch]

http://www.solarmissiontechnologies.com/project-pilotplant.htm

Very interesting.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Yup, in the news this week

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66694,00.html

[ewagner]

2. Wow!!!

That is so cool.....

I wonder how small of a scale it can be made to work on?

One has to wonder what a graph of efficiency would look like.......

[Up2Late]

3. Cool, uh, I mean, that's Hot!

I heard about this a few years ago, is this one built now?:hippie:

[Coastie for Truth]

4. Back in the late 1980's a group of U of Mich grad students (and faculty)

with a Westinghouse Electric Co. grant were doing something similar. Then Westinghouse "lost its way" - sold its energy business to Siemens, and went into entertainment. :(

[phantom power]

5. One other question I have about this project...

whose job is it to keep 25,000 acres of plexiglass clean?

[Dogmudgeon]

6. There will be a draft of NYC Squeegie Guys

We must combat the Axis of Birds with Diarrhea!

--p!

[NNadir]

7. This is a very nice plant.

It wouldn't work well on snow days, or in especially cloudy areas, but where it is suitable, it's a nice idea. 100 MW is very small, but appreciable

[dogindia]

8. Someone on the Energy(resources) yahoo group suggested running tower

up the side of mountain...certainly would take much less structure to build and be safer in high winds.

Wonder how this compares in costs/energy return to big wind turbines.

Probably suited i different areas.

Also wonder what effect all that heat does to the surrounding ecosystem.

[NickB79]

9. Dupe

Wrong post.