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
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.
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
What do you think?
