When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, the concept shown at left, “solar thermal,” held great promise. The main reason for optimism lay in its integrated storage, i.e., molten salt, which could take on energy, raising its temperature, and then give …
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Solar Thermal
Gordon Hutchinson describes the photo here: A new solar energy system just went online — and it’s set to redefine how the world generates power. This system isn’t just a revolution in solar power. It’s transforming energy as we know …
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Solar Thermal
In the year 2009, the year 2GreenEnergy was launched, the world of renewable energy had high hopes for the technology shown at left. At the time, solar thermal had a huge advantage over competitive approaches to clean power, in particular, …
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Wave Energy
We will be hearing about niche applications of renewable energy until hell freezes over, and I have no problem with that. Having said that, I do object to developers of these technologies who claim that energy that is extracted from …
Tagged with: economically competitive with wind and solar, energy that is extracted from waves, niche applications of renewable energy, river and ocean and currents, Solar Thermal, the heat buried within the Earth, wave energy makes sense in a few coastal regions of the world where fossil fuels are expensive to import and solar and wind conditions are particularly bad
There’s No Law That Says You Can’t Do It, But Why?
It’s amazing that both the homeowner and the architect thought that a design, built as it is around stubbing toes, was a solid idea. This is the advice I give people who want to build energy generation systems centered around …
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Solar Thermal
Here’s a little piece of renewable energy fraud that I thought readers might enjoy. It relies on people’s abundant ignorance of solar thermal itself (aka concentrated solar power/CSP), a technology that has been around for decades, and is struggling to …
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American Business Once Had a Conscience
What Thomas Edison said here in the 1880s is a reminder that all this could have gone another way; i.e., the entire environmental mess in which we find ourselves today could have been avoided. Of course, before solar PV and …
Solar Thermal: A Comeback?
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the launch of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago. From the perspective of solar, we saw: Lots of promise for solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP)
Solar Thermal: Not Gone, Not Forgotten
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, …
Might Solar Thermal Energy Succeed After All?
When we kicked off 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I (wrongly) predicted that solar thermal, aka concentrated solar power (CSP) would soon come to dominate the field of renewable energy, largely because of the way it lends itself to …
