Solar Thermal Power

According to this link Europe uses 4,000 terawatts of energy but in the normally unusable deserts of North Africa and the Middle East 630,000 terawatts fall unused. If solar thermal plants covered the desert about the size of Austria it could...

Solar thermal could do just that at affordable costs. Solar thermal can now produce electricity at as low as 8 cents a watt, and that would be improved by the economy of scale of mass production of the solar plant components.

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2008-05-03 03:58:18 by Love of Truth

John O'Donnell, energy and climate entrepreneur, discusses solar thermal power. The Energy Seminar meets weekly during the academic year. For ...

I just found one, here at http://www.gadgetroad.com/technology/spa in-uses-worlds-first-solar-thermal-power -plant/2007/05/07/, in Seville, Spain. They say is the only one, buy I feel they're wrong? Is it true?

Yes!....and NO its not true!

A new 12 MW power plant was just put online last year in June. It is located just outside Phoenix, AZ, and it provides all of its power to Sempra Energy in San Diego for distribution to all those power...

2007-05-07 11:13:07 by John Pope

This technology has been tested and works and with the latest equipment updates will generate power 24 -7 if the gov would back operations like this we could produce hydrogen as well.
The hydrogen could be used to run cars, trucks. buses...

<<with the latest equipment updates will generate power 24 -7>>

i don't think so.
other than maybe at the north pole in june.

however, there are several solar plants.

2008-07-01 20:23:54 by Bert1964

I was wondering is solar water heating a more cost efficient use of solar power over using large arrays to power your house or large solar thermal plants that are being contemplated all over the world.

It depends on how you do it. Passive solar is the most efficient and reliable. The more pumps, storage tanks and controllers you use the less efficient and reliable the system will be. The egyptians were successfully using passive solar 3,000...

2009-08-31 07:13:22 by kevin

Solar power means energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy? Can u please give me an example of each? Sun ------> _____________
Sun-------> _____________

Follow the link I will provide in the sources. It has a very detailed description on how thermal energy (photons) is converted into electrical energy.
Hope this helps

2006-11-04 12:03:41 by shopaholic_2434

I'm not talking about the small household systems. I'm more concerned with concentrated solar power. Such as those used in Saville, Spain.

They dont realize it even exists. alot of clueless people have no idea, its funny to hear that when your in the industry. i work for a company who not only does solar thermal for residential, but we have solar adsorption chillers that uses solar...

2008-02-11 02:25:42 by Rhys M