By: kent beuchert
The amount of land for photovoltaics cannot be calculated as claimed. Nor can photovoltaic produce electricity to meet peak demand. Thus it’s of little value as the demand for power grows, which will...
View ArticleBy: thomac C gray
The amount of land required is of practically no concern. There is enough land in just 10% of the Federal land in Nevada to produce all the power the entire country needs using an Ausra type of solar...
View ArticleBy: Ed Ring
Kent: It’s great that you keep us honest – but the point of the post was that in the case of a solar thermal generating plant existing in the shadow of Hoover Dam, load balancing is quite easy. You...
View ArticleBy: Mike D
Solar thermal plants are not only far cheaper than photovoltaic cells, but they can easily store the heat generated for nighttime power generation. You can’t do that with other solar options and...
View ArticleBy: Gene Wright
Kent is right, Ed. Your math is “voodoo math” when it comes to determining comparisons between various types of generating options. Facilities are designed based upon peak demands, which don’t...
View ArticleBy: Ed Ring
Gene: If your specific concern is storage, that is addressed in the last paragraph of the article. Obviously we aren’t going to do well to rely on solar energy if the solar peak is noon and the demand...
View ArticleBy: cheyenne miller
my dad worked there and he said the mirriors huge,and the oil in the mirriors gets up to 1700 degrees.=-)
View ArticleBy: Jim Rossi
Ed, I thought it was an extremely enlightening article. And I bet it is a very “cool” – not literally – place to work.
View ArticleBy: Jim Rossi
Well I thought it was an extremely enlightening article, arguments about math aside. And I bet it’s a very interesting place to work.
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