Comments on: World's Largest Commercial Solar Power Tower Goes Online

By: Home Solar Power Guide

Home Solar Power Guide — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:43:00 +0000

That’s one awesome picture!! I’m the Chief Engineer of the largest Platinum LEED office tower in NYC but that solar thermal plant makes me green with envy. Thanks for posting this.

By: Advego

Advego — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:53:48 +0000

I think that we’ll have huge leap in solar energy production when solar batteries will be integrated in each thing that we use. Until that, it’s only sandbox games, but games quite necessary for future leap.

By: Advego

Advego — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:53:00 +0000

By: solar energy

solar energy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:08:26 +0000

Solar thermal energy seems to be gaining popularity. Australia are also pushing it hard. They want it to be their main source of energy by 2050.

By: solar energy

solar energy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:08:00 +0000

Solar thermal energy seems to be gaining popularity. Australia are also pushing it hard. They want it to be their main source of energy by 2050.

By: RIF

RIF — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:17:54 +0000

@Ca

It is because of the tower construction which all mirrors have to point to.

The alternative method is with parabolic through, these plants could be any size but in Spain they are built in units of 50MW due to feed-in price rules. See Andasol power plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andasol_1_solar_power_station

By: RIF

RIF — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:17:00 +0000

@Ca

It is because of the tower construction which all mirrors have to point to.

The alternative method is with parabolic through, these plants could be any size but in Spain they are built in units of 50MW due to feed-in price rules. See Andasol power plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andasol_1_solar_power_station

By: Ca

Ca — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:48:53 +0000

20 Megawatts is really not very much at all…

By: Ca

Ca — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:48:00 +0000

20 Megawatts is really not very much at all…

By: Shahab khan

Shahab khan — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:52:33 +0000

Thanks for sharing sean, it is looking really awesome!

Being a electrical engineering student, i am really proud of it!

By: Shahab khan

Shahab khan — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:52:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing sean, it is looking really awesome!

Being a electrical engineering student, i am really proud of it!

By: Ravi Soparkar

Ravi Soparkar — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:35:35 +0000

Congratulations. CSP may prove cost effective over photovoltaic process. However looking at all motorised mirrors and other high tech power genration equipment maintainance economics need to be proved. I would be happy to receive and share more info on this topic. Ravi soparkar, Pune, India renewableenery at in dot com

By: Ravi Soparkar

Ravi Soparkar — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:35:00 +0000