Comments on: World Bank Group Co-Finances Morocco’s Ouarzazate 500 MW Solar Thermal Power Project

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By: Africa at the Energy Crossroads: AfDB Finances Historic Renewable Energy … | Nigeria Newsline

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:44:20 +0000

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Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:35:08 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:31:00 +0000

Creating jobs and improving electricity supplies in North Africa are the sorts of things that keep people from extremist positions. People with a future tend to not get involved in extremist movements. Some of the world’s worst problems are born from desperation.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have nothing to do with each other, except for the time frame in which they were started. One is commonly agreed to be justified. The other, illegal.

I suppose they do have in common the fact that they were horribly managed by the administration that started them….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:18:00 +0000

As long as they don’t turn Northern Africa into another Iraq/Afghanistan…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:47:00 +0000

There’s no doubt that the fossil fuel industry wields a lot of power in Washington. The Koch brothers finance the Tea Party.

It’s not clear what the future of CSP plants will be. The price of solar panels is dropping so rapidly that some CSP projects have been turned into PV projects.

We don’t need storage in large amounts yet. This means that the storage part of CSP isn’t bringing large value to the market right now. The big issue will be whether CSP with storage will turn out to be cheaper than PV/wind and storage. Since solar and wind would share the same storage systems thermal storage might not be the cheap answer.

It looks like we have two promising low-cost storage solutions ahead.

First is using EV batteries for storage. Most people will drive fewer miles than their batteries will hold. That extra capacity can be rented to grid managers. The new Toshiba SCiB batteries are good for 4,000 or more full discharge/charge cycles. For the Honda Fit EV that would mean a >400,000 mile battery life. Plenty to rent out and make some money for the car owner.

Second is a new sodium-ion battery going into production. At least 5,000 cycles and possibly more than 20,000. As cheap or cheaper than lead acid batteries.

By: ow lafaye

ow lafaye — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:55:00 +0000

I understand that CSP plants could be installed at the cost of a similiar capacity, coal powered plant…and construction completed in 1/3 of the time.

Once installed, this is essentially FREE power…Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrong? or is it our government, controlled by oil and coal interests that is wrong?