Crescent Dunes Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 World’s First Ever Solar Plant Provides Power Day and Night https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crescent-dunes-world-first-solar-plant-20160621/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crescent-dunes-world-first-solar-plant-20160621/#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:48:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60132 Crescent Dunes Project, located in Nevada, goes down in history as the first ever solar power plant, which provides clean electricity 24 hours a day. Renewable energy is slowly getting closer to the place on the energy market that it deserves. Technology improves, reliability and efficiency increase, and consequently investments get a boost too. Limitations […]

The post World’s First Ever Solar Plant Provides Power Day and Night appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crescent-dunes-world-first-solar-plant-20160621/feed/ 0 60132 Molten Salt Solar Thermal Power Plant on Track for Completion https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molten-salt-solar-thermal-power-plant-on-track-for-completion-20130407/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molten-salt-solar-thermal-power-plant-on-track-for-completion-20130407/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:14:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35805 This month, workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant in Tonopah, Nevada. When completed, the solar energy plant, based on molten salt thermal technology, will be the first of its kind in the world. Crescent Dunes uses thousands of special […]

The post Molten Salt Solar Thermal Power Plant on Track for Completion appeared first on The Green Optimistic.

]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/molten-salt-solar-thermal-power-plant-on-track-for-completion-20130407/feed/ 0 35805