Friday, November 26, 2010

Solar power projects in California face challenges - POWER-GEN WorldWide

Large scale concentrating solar plants not only have their fundamental problems of sourcing  water to feed their steam plants in the desert and getting new rights of way for expensive new transmission lines . They are also facing turtles and lizards as hostages to the environmentalists and  regulators with no spine.

http://www.powergenworldwide.com/index/display/articledisplay/3001436241/articles/powergenworldwide/renewables/solar/2010/11/California-solar-challenges.html

Tessera’s plants are very innovative, using hundreds of dish concentrators and integrated Sterling engines in their architecture.  

http://www.tesserasolar.com/north-america/index.htm

 

 

 

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