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Interesting reads.Especially the one about India. Just a few panels can make a huge difference in their quality of life.
Torresol’s 19.9 MW concentrating solar power plant became the first ever to generate uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours straight.
The plant uses a Power Tower design which features a field of 2,650 mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto a boiler in a central receiver tower. The plant also utilizes molten salt as a heat-transfer fluid that allows the plant to generate electricity when there’s no sunlight.
Torresol says that the plant will provide electricity for about 20 hours each day on average, with numerous days in the summer seeing 24-hours of supply. How does that compare with a similar-sized PV plant? The 21.2 MW Solarpark Calaveron in Spain generates about 40 GWh a year. This smaller 19.9 MW power tower plant will generate about 110 GWh per year.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/0...ours-straight/
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but US bankers betting on solar-voltaic
Solar Thermal Plants Losing out to Photovoltaics
that's led some solar power plant projects to switch from using solar thermal technology—which involves concentrating sunlight to generate high temperatures that can be used to generate electricity—for photovoltaics, solar panels that convert sunlight to electricity directly.
the issue may also be something called bankability. Solar panels are established technology—banks have a pretty good idea how long they'll last and what the return on investment will be. Much of the solar thermal technology being deployed now hasn't been tested on a large scale for long periods of time, which can make financing harder.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...26961/?ref=rss
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India Solar Boom: Rural Poor Give Up On Power Grid
Across India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through small companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity grid to deliver solar panels to the rural poor. Those customers could provide the human energy that advocates of solar power have been looking for to fuel a boom in the next decade.
With 40 percent of India's rural households lacking electricity and nearly a third of its 30 million agricultural water pumps running on subsidized diesel, "there is a huge market and a lot of potential," said Santosh Kamath, executive director of consulting firm KPMG in India. "Decentralized solar installations are going to take off in a very big way and will probably be larger than the grid-connected segment."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_889760.html
Interesting reads.
Another way India is fixing their energy problem is giving any woman who gets sterilized a Tata car.
is it safe to live under a solar panel just like living next to a transformer?
a leftist's dream come trueAnother way India is fixing their energy problem is giving any woman who gets sterilized a Tata car.
I thought the conservative narrative is that leftists want to have as many babies in order to get as much out of the government as possible.
U.S. Renewable Energy Production Has Surpassed Nuclear
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), renewable energy — biofuels, geothermal, solar, water, wind — has passed a milestone as domestic production is now greater than that of nuclear power
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/...assed-nuclear/
A leftist's dream come true.
Now time to dream bigger.
I though they preferred abortions, so they could live responsibility free, and keep the ones that occur 3 years apart to stay on the government teat.
India will have the kind of distributed electrical system that many experts believe is the way to go. Interesting. That means they will have the instant built-in bonus of not losing any power to transmission loss.
Torresol’s 19.9 MW concentrating solar power plant became the first ever to generate uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours straight.
The plant uses a Power Tower design which features a field of 2,650 mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto a boiler in a central receiver tower. The plant also utilizes molten salt as a heat-transfer fluid that allows the plant to generate electricity when there’s no sunlight.
Torresol says that the plant will provide electricity for about 20 hours each day on average, with numerous days in the summer seeing 24-hours of supply. How does that compare with a similar-sized PV plant? The 21.2 MW Solarpark Calaveron in Spain generates about 40 GWh a year. This smaller 19.9 MW power tower plant will generate about 110 GWh per year.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/0...ours-straight/
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but US bankers betting on solar-voltaic
Solar Thermal Plants Losing out to Photovoltaics
that's led some solar power plant projects to switch from using solar thermal technology—which involves concentrating sunlight to generate high temperatures that can be used to generate electricity—for photovoltaics, solar panels that convert sunlight to electricity directly.
the issue may also be something called bankability. Solar panels are established technology—banks have a pretty good idea how long they'll last and what the return on investment will be. Much of the solar thermal technology being deployed now hasn't been tested on a large scale for long periods of time, which can make financing harder.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...26961/?ref=rss
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India Solar Boom: Rural Poor Give Up On Power Grid
Across India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through small companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity grid to deliver solar panels to the rural poor. Those customers could provide the human energy that advocates of solar power have been looking for to fuel a boom in the next decade.
With 40 percent of India's rural households lacking electricity and nearly a third of its 30 million agricultural water pumps running on subsidized diesel, "there is a huge market and a lot of potential," said Santosh Kamath, executive director of consulting firm KPMG in India. "Decentralized solar installations are going to take off in a very big way and will probably be larger than the grid-connected segment."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_889760.html
Sounds like an excellent micro-finance project, IMO.
I cannot remember where I read this, but about 2-3 weeks ago I was reading about some hurdle which was recently cleared that allowed a very interesting solar scheme to become easier to achieve. Essentially, you rent solar panels from a company who comes and installs/services, etc. You pay them a monthly bill (which the article said was generally 20% lower than your electric bill), and you are insulated from rising fuel costs, so the savings could be even greater (and likely will be).
Edit:
I did find a link that describes this. Here it is. It turns out the hurdle was just more money. LOL
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, huh?
Anatomy of a Solar PV System: How to Continue “Ferocious Cost Reductions” for Solar Electricity
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/0...st-reductions/
Hooray for ethanol!
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