Solar Thermal Plants Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Google Planning to Improve Solar Thermal Plants for Cheap Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-solar-thermal-plant-20090922/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-solar-thermal-plant-20090922/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4482 Google Inc is planning to develop its own mirror technology for solar energy that could be more cheaper and accessible to the masses, reducing the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-solar-thermal-plant-20090922/feed/ 0 4482 SunCatcher's Stirling-Engine Based Solar Concentrators to Start in 2010 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/suncatcher-solar-concentrator-20090710/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/suncatcher-solar-concentrator-20090710/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:42:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3979 Tessera Solar and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) have unveiled new designs of their SunCatcher system at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).

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