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This is ultimately a heck of a plant. Especially when you have to wear special sunglasses to not hurt your eyes with the glare.
This is a great job by the Spainards. Bravo to them!
Solar Plant …. as the green future unfolds.
Forced Green Turns 2 – We Have So Far To Go, Yet We Have Come So Far
There’s a gruesome little saying that goes – if you put a frog in boiling water it will jump out, but if you put it in cold water and slowly heat it until the water boils, the frog will stay there and die. Ergo, if slow and gradual, change goes on for the most part, unnoticed. This is so often used as an analogy to caution for bad changes. But it also serves to make us pause and take time to realize the good changes. (more…)
The Ability of Light to Produce Electrons, and Thus Electricity, Has Been Known For Over 100 Years.
At the Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Sandia National Laboratories, scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. (more…)
Too Good To Be True? Not With MIT On Our Side
MIT researchers have a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.
Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power.
The researchers developed a new catalyst, consisting of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode. When the catalyst is placed in water and electricity runs through the electrode, oxygen gas is produced. When another catalyst is used to produce hydrogen gas, the oxygen and hydrogen can be combined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power a house or an electric car, day or night.
With Daniel Nocera’s and Matthew Kanan’s catalyst, homeowners could use their solar panels during the day to power their home, while also using the energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for storage. At night, the stored hydrogen and oxygen could be recombined using a fuel cell to generate power while the solar panels are inactive.
More engineering work needs to be done to integrate the process into existing photovoltaic systems, but Nocera said he is confident that such systems will become a reality.
Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.
But like the old saying goes ….. “an internet video clip from LiveScience.com is worth a thousand words“, so……
The Electric InterGrid – Why A Smart Power Grid is Essential
Source: LiveScience.com
On October 27, President Obama announced $3.4 billion in grants to help build a “smart” electric grid aimed at reducing blackouts and cutting utility bills. The grid, as envisioned, would do a better job incorporating wind and solar energy into the nation’s electricity supply.
The existing power grid is a patchwork of often antiquated systems that, under stress, can fail to deliver electricity where it’s needed. The grants will pay for better transformers at utility companies and also smart meters to help consumers manage their energy use.
“It is fair to say that the current (grid) system is certainly outdated. It’s dilapidated,” said Carol Browner, the president’s top adviser on climate change and energy issues. The new plan is expected to created tens of thousands of jobs, Reuters reports.
What’s a smart grid and why do we need it? Find out below.
The first video being:
America’s electric infrastructure is undergoing a massive make-over. It must develop Internet-style intelligence.
The second video being:
To create an Internet-style power system, every electric device has to learn when to listen and how to talk.
Concentrating the Power of the Sun
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is emerging as one of the most promising sources of renewable energy for the 21st century. Tessera Solar International, headquartered in Houston, Texas, (Tessera Solar International, based in London, United Kingdom), will develop, build, operate and own large-scale solar power plants around the world, using the new SunCatcher Solar Dish Stirling System, developed by Tessera’s sister company, Stirling Energy, Inc. (SES), headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. (more…)
Arizona’s Sun-Powered Bullet Train
Bullet trains are already considered a greener mode of transport that greatly curbs greenhouse emissions while cutting down on our reliance on pollution belching cars and airplanes, not to mention reducing the choke-hold OPEC and big oil have on everybody on this planet and the planet itself. (more…)
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