Here’s an interview with 2GreenEnergy Associate Agostinho Miguel Garcia, who’s working on a very interesting solar thermal (concentrated solar power / CSP) project in Namibia – a country whose conditions are perfect for CSP. Agostinho’s headquartered in Lisbon, but works …
Category: Solar Thermal
Solar Thermal Comes To Namibia
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How Much Solar Thermal Would Be Required to Provide 100% of Our Energy Needs?
I’ve often written about how astonishingly little of the Earth’s surface needs to be covered in a solar collecting technology, e.g., solar thermal, in order to provide 100% of the world’s energy needs. Linked above is a wonderful graphic that …
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Infographic on Solar Energy
Here’s another in our ongoing series of infographics, designed to offer young people and clean energy newcomers an accessible introduction to the subject. Here, we provide an objective look at the “pros and cons” of solar. While we advocate in …
Clean Energy Technology Is Developed in Mysterious Ways
It’s the birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, whose telephone came as the accidental consequence of his interest in developing a tool that might teach deaf people how to speak. To me, it’s another reminder that accidental discoveries are extremely common. …
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Infographics: The Pros and Cons of Solar Energy
We’re working up another in our series of infographics, in our quest to lay out some of the basics of renewable energy for people who may be new to the subject. Here’s the text that I propose to use for …
The ROI on Solar Thermal – aka Concentrated Solar Power
I wrote recently that it’s impossible to predict the ROI associated with solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP). What I was referring to was utility-scale CSP. Personally, I think the future will hold significant reductions in costs and …
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What’s the Return on Investment on Solar Thermal?
I just received this terse question from a reader: “What’s the ROI (return on investment) on solar thermal?” I responded, hoping to prompt more discussion: “That’s an interesting but impossible question to answer. What is the nature of your interest …
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Clean Energy — Lots of Ideas Out There
“The way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas,” two-time Nobel prize laureate Linus Pauling said modestly. That’s something to think about, isn’t it? Don’t stress out about the quality of your ideas – at least initially. …
Concentrated Solar Power — Hot Clean Energy Plan
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZbWSSBoIE] Here’s a few minutes of video on a business plan I really love. It’s a breakthrough in concentrated solar power, or CSP, aka solar thermal energy, made by a guy I’ve met and come to know and trust. …
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Gigawatt Solar Project Switches from CSP to PV
I was disappointed to learn that the gigawatt solar project in Blythe, CA decided to switch from CSP to PV. The issue, at least on the surface, is “bankability,” i.e., maturity of the technology, along with the obvious fact that …
