Sentences with phrase «than concentrating solar»

The price of photovoltaic panels has plummeted in recent years, making plants cheaper than concentrating solar plants.

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Not exact matches

Just outside the Mojave Desert Preserve in California, more than 170,000 mirrors concentrate solar rays onto three heating towers at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Sysolar rays onto three heating towers at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating SySolar Electric Generating System.

Stirling engines are significantly more efficient at converting sunlight into energy than most photovoltaic panels or concentrating solar power plants, whether parabolic trough or tower designs.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

Built by Spanish company Acciona Solar Power, it is a solar thermal power station that uses 760 parabolic concentrators with more than 182,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto receiver tSolar Power, it is a solar thermal power station that uses 760 parabolic concentrators with more than 182,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto receiver tsolar thermal power station that uses 760 parabolic concentrators with more than 182,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto receiver tubes.

And although a handful of other concentrating solar plants around the world use solar rays to heat water directly into steam, it is much more volatile than molten salt and can not be easily stored, Ho explains.

«Recent studies show that Chile has an estimated potential of more than 1.8 million MW in NCRE projects, including solar technology PV [photovoltaics], CSP [concentrated solar power], wind, mini-hydro, biogas / biomass, geothermal and marine,» said Carlos Finat, executive director at ACERA.

With the highest solar radiation in the world concentrated in the Atacama Desert, its collectors feed the mine more than enough heat necessary for the copper extraction process known as electrowinning.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

More than 80 percent of this mass is concentrated in three clouds: [KKY2004] 3 (16000 solar), [KKY2004] 4 (12000 solar), and [KKY2004] 12 (7500 solar).

Note that the IPCC concentrates on Solar Irradiance, but ignores other solar energies such as that associated with Solar Magnetic Flux that has more than doubled since Solar Irradiance, but ignores other solar energies such as that associated with Solar Magnetic Flux that has more than doubled since solar energies such as that associated with Solar Magnetic Flux that has more than doubled since Solar Magnetic Flux that has more than doubled since 1900.

Because concentrating solar thermal power plants on only five percent of the USA's desert lands could generate more electricity than the entire country uses.

I'd far rather live with the aftereffects of a «worse than worse case» nuclear accident like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm than what a few of those concentrating solar plants would do to the Mojave.

Utility - scale solar makes up more than two - thirds of California's solar capacity, with utility - scale solar PV making up 55 % and solar thermal systems such as concentrating solar making up another 13 %.

Weißbach et al. have analysed the EROI for a number of forms of energy production and their principal conclusion is that nuclear, hydro -, and gas and coal - fired power stations have an EROI that is much greater than wind, solar photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power in a desert or cultivated biomass: see Fig. 2.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants require more workers than photovoltaic plants; photovoltaic plants can sometimes even be run remotely.

A solar dish's concentration ratio is much higher than linear concentrating systems, and it has a working fluid temperature higher than 1,380 °F.

Concentrating solar power better option than nuclear Concentrating solar power better option than nuclear Comment from Dr Gerry Wolff April 10, 2007 Comment regarding Nuclear power plants are financially risky...

Even relatively thin clouds will cut concentrated solar power radically, and hence concentration systems have much lower availability fraction than flat plate systems.

Completion of these two bits of transmission infrastructure would do more than anything else in Australia to spur development of concentrating solar power and geothermal exploration and development in Australia's interior.

Renewable energy plants Rather than simply avoiding the creation of more CO2 emissions, GT's direct air capture technology makes it possible for renewable energy plants such as concentrated solar power to be carbon negative.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed new fractal - like, concentrating solar power receivers for small - to medium - scale use that are up to 20 percent more effective at absorbing sunlight than current technology.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

RenewableEnergyWorld.com took a look at the numbers and found that solar panels installed on residential rooftops in Los Angeles as part of the Open Neighborhoods community solar program will generate a cheaper cost per kilowatt - hour of electricity delivered than the most cost - effective, utility - scale concentrating solar power plant in the world.

A concentrating solar thermal power plant, even with molten salt storage, may work better with computers, nanostructured absorbers, and other advantages of modern technology, but it doesn't require tech any more sophisticated than 1800's steam engines.

Many places use solar water heaters, and there are also concentrated solar power plants that generate electricity directly from the sun's heat rather than via PV, so the total amount of solar power is actually higher than the PV number alone.

According to the DOE, these projects will promote its goal of reducing the cost of electricity generate from concentrating solar power systems from 13 - 16 cents / kWh today (with no storage) to 8 - 11 cents / kWh with six hours of storage by 2015, and less than 7 cents / kWh with 12 - 17 hours of storage by 2020.

The Sport comes with a pair of 9 - inch covered, black, graniteware cooking pots and optional reflectors for concentrating sunlight under less - than - ideal solar conditions, such as when trees or clouds partially block the sun.

In «wet - cooled» concentrating solar power plants, more water is used to make power than in any other kind of power plant.

Each night a speaker addresses environmental topics — a format that seems handy to those who'd rather concentrate on sore muscles than talk — and the rides themselves are sustainably themed, from a backdrop of Redwood trees to stops including a solar - powered winery.

World Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants Greater than 10 Megawatts in Operation as of June 2008 (XLS)