05-30-2007, 03:44 AM
This is what I get for being rusty with the sciences. Thanks for looking up the numbers Kandrathe, I do genuinely appreciate it.
After a little bit of Google-fu, I managed to find the mirror based powerplant I was referring to. It is indeed located in Spain, in Seville to be precise. The BBC has an article about it, which can be found here.
It's a very similar concept as the Solar Tres project, focus the energy onto one point raising the temperature, insert water (or saline solution) to get steam and voila, get some energy. According to their math, once completed it'll produce energy around 3 times more than the cost of coal power. Definitely not an overall solution, but definitely something that could help suppliment the power grid, assuming costs of productiong/upkeep aren't too high.
Cheers,
Munk
After a little bit of Google-fu, I managed to find the mirror based powerplant I was referring to. It is indeed located in Spain, in Seville to be precise. The BBC has an article about it, which can be found here.
It's a very similar concept as the Solar Tres project, focus the energy onto one point raising the temperature, insert water (or saline solution) to get steam and voila, get some energy. According to their math, once completed it'll produce energy around 3 times more than the cost of coal power. Definitely not an overall solution, but definitely something that could help suppliment the power grid, assuming costs of productiong/upkeep aren't too high.
Cheers,
Munk