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CSP on BBC

Concentrated solar power (CSP), a topic mentioned on this blog; was part of tonights’ BBC world news on bbcAmerica tv and pbs. DKfactor highlighted csp better on this post.
The piece was about a fully functioning zero emissions solar thermal power plant in Spain. It produces 11MW and supplements the energy in Seville. In the summer as it gets hotter, the system generates more energy.Mirrors point the sun’s rays onto boilers which generate power the age old way – steam turbines. Read more about it here.
Note that this is different from the photovoltaic systems i typically blog about…no PV on this one. Mirrors, lots of mirrors.

Thanks for the link Whis!

Update: 05/03: Gerry Wolff provided some great links in the comments:
http://www.trecers.net/index.html

and
http://www.trec-uk.org.uk/index.htm

and

http://www.trec.net.au/

Thanks!

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3 Responses to “CSP on BBC”

Whispering Inn May 3rd, 2007 at 7:08 am

You’re welcome, AfroM, and thanks for blogging about this.

Truly a great piece.

What really got me excited was the possibility of setting up such a system, albeit on a much, much larger scale, in the Sahara as you had mentioned on a post early last year…Think of the possibilities (economic and enviromnental)!