Ivanpah Solar Is World’s Most Productive

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Solar In America: One Bright Spot in California

 

Despite the US report that under 1% of its power derives from solar energy, a team consisting of Bechtel, NRG, BrightSource Energy, and Google, have built and continue building final parts of a 377-megawatt solar facility in the Mojave Desert of California located in a nondescript town called Ivanpah. The five square mile collection of 173,500 heliostats will power 140,000 California homes. http://www.bechtel.com/ivanpah.html

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The shear volume of the project puts the US ahead of Germany, the most solarized energy infrastructure in the world, for amount of energy generated with solar.

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Analysts at HFS, aware of the questionable economics behind Ivanpah, wonder when much more efficient energy sources such as LENR using something like a Rossi-Focardi device might be introduced into the US energy mix, as it has been in Italy and three other European nations since 2011. http://alfin2300.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-on-rossi-focardi-lenr-device-and.html

 

 

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