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Thermal Storage Adds Value to Concentrating Solar Power Plants

Benji Jerew — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:21:20 +0000

Utility companies, in an effort to provide more carbon-free power, have learned to diversify their power-power generating facilities. Instead of the power grid being supplied by a single source, many different sources come together to provide power for the whole grid. Solar power is one of these sources, but has a flaw, that is, when […]

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Solar Powered Water Pumping System in Egypt Uses Concentrated Photovoltaics

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:40:36 +0000

Agriculture has always relied on sunlight and water, that's a known fact since the birth of civilization. A project initiated in Upper Egypt uses sunlight to extract water from arid land, seeking to replace diesel generators that have traditionally been used.

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New MIT Approach Towards Concentrated Solar Yields Cheaper Power

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:53:34 +0000

Large mirror arrays that concentrate light on a tank have been made before, but now a team at the MIT has designed a system that simplifies what has been done before and also makes it cheap for concentrated solar power to enter our homes, rivaling the price of coal.

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IBM Invents Way to Both Cool Down Concentrated Photovoltaics and Desalinate Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:14:18 +0000

IBM is seemingly more and more concerned about green technologies, and now invests in a project that can solve the problem of cooling solar cells that would otherwise be hard to use because of the high temperatures they're exposed to (120°C), aka concentrated photovoltaics.

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Solar Junction Sets New Efficiency Record for Concentrated Photovoltaics: 43.5%

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:24:26 +0000

A new record for concentrated photovoltaics efficiency has been broken by Solar Junction, the same company that announced a 41.4% efficiency in February. The new score is 43.5% and their multi-junction solar cells can be produced right away.

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Harvesting Solar Power in Spain With Very Efficient 30 Year Old Technologies

Cristi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:41:38 +0000

Abengoa Solar and E.ON Climate & Renewables have teamed up to build two 50MW concentrating solar power plants in Spain. With a total investment of around 550 million Euro, Helioenergy 1 & 2 will harvest solar power in the best area in Europe in terms of solar radiation: Ecija Seville in Southern Spain. Helioenergy 1 […]

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Solar Stirling Engine System Working in Colder and Darker Areas

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:22:55 +0000

Stirling engines become more and more used and promoted among alternative energy circles. The interesting fact with them is that they can be fueled by any source of heat, and the cleaner the source is, the better the stirling engine does to the environment.

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