New Concentrating Mirrors to Cut by 50% the Cost of Solar Thermal Power Plants
4 March 2010 | Solar Power | 2 Comments
I noticed that lately, Google tackles very serious projects related to renewable energy sources. They began to invest large sums of money in solar power plants and even more, they have hired engineers and scientists in order to develop the solar technology already existing. Google researchers have already announced that a new type of concentrating mirror was developed, in order to cut in half the cost of solar thermal plants.
Generally, a solar thermal plant uses mirrors to channel energy to a container filled with a substance that is used to produce steam. Then, the steam produced is used to spin the turbines to generate electricity. Unlike other companies, Google wants to use other materials for the substrate on which the mirror is mounted and for the mirror’s reflective surface. If this technology will be a success, Google will partner with two great companies (eSolar and Brightsource Energy) in order to deploy the technology.
“We will work to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that is cheaper than electricity produced from coal with a goal of producing one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity – enough to power a city the size of San Francisco – in years, not decades.”, announced Google.org.
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i hope that this little efforts could really save the world