Nevada Solar One Power Plant

[BestTimesNow]

"Spread in military rows across 300 acres of sun-baked earth, Nevada Solar One’s trough-shaped parabolic mirrors are the core of this CSP plant – also called a “solar thermal” plant. The mirrors focus sunlight onto receiver tubes, heating a fluid that, at 735 degrees F., flows through a heat exchanger to a steam generator that supplies 64 megawatts of electricity to 14,000 Las Vegas homes."

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.........Plus other future projects

New rays of hope for solar power’s future | csmonitor.com


The Plants web site:

http://www.nevadasolarone.net/

[oztrailrider]

There was a show on Nat Geo here last night about the plant while it was being built. Quite interesting, showed how the mirrors and heat pipes are manufactured. Very pure and expensive glass is used, they also covered some testing of molten salt heat storage which should allow for 13-14hrs of heat storage.