We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Solar Energy ForumI have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter
Google-Backed Solar Startup Picks Up Steam, $130 Million
Rising oil prices lift all alt-energy boats. For proof, look no further than the fat $130 million investment scooped up by eSolar, a company whose basic solar power strategy -- using sunlight-reflecting mirrors to generate steam -- was all but abandoned in the 1980s, and has recently recently caught investors' attention again.
See NRELs views on Solar Thermal energy and baseload potential;
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As the cost of thermal storage is reduced, future parabolic trough plants could yield capacity factors greater than 70%, competing directly with future baseload combined cycle plants or coal plants.
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Last edited by LMagic007; 26th-April-2008 at 05:09 AM.
Solar thermal is a great substitute power generation to coal powered plants. We should be using more of these immediately. If we had these to supplement our PV systems on our roofs, the use of fossil fuels could all but be eliminated. Ok now I'm just dreaming.
Google-Backed Solar Startup Picks Up Steam, $130 Million
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