I LOVE IT! Thank you very much!

Thank goodness for KZfaq. Awesome

I like this vid

we are waiting ... hope someday in Bangladesh we will see the use of this kind of CSP

Being in the energy industry has it's pluses when it comes to education.

Combine this with nuclear, geothermal and hydroelectric and you'll be able to create enough energy for everyone.

A decade later and here I am doing science. Whos here in 2030? (it'll make sense in the future C: )

This is a great video about solar power. I definitely researching more about solar energy overall and switching your home and living green! You'll save so much money in the long run. My family just bought solar panels from SILICON SOLAR and it's been really amazing.

*_ummm this didnt teach me 3 ways how we could improve the harvesting of solar energy_*

Really Groovy!!!!!!

really nice explanation!!

I wonder if you could do a hybrid concentrated solar/geothermal power plant with both a high temp steam power turbine and a lower temp power system (refrigerator compressor running backwards, temperature differences making electricity instead of electricity making temperature differences) basically you uses solar in the day and the geothermal resource at night, throwing any excess solar generated heat underground.

Go, go, go!

@SparxHCS 250MW generated on the instant, not MWh

I love America and all Americans

How about reflective solar cells.

Impressive.

Super KOOOOOOLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so cool

no idea, if i lived in a country where it was practical to produce energy this way, i'd be unequivocally for it. write your congressman or senator or whoever

Hello.. I have a query please.. While the HTF in the parabolic trough system reaches as hot as 390 C or so, how the steam temperature (that runs the turbine) can be raised to more than 500 C ? Thanks a lot

Collectors are one time cost and they don't cost much more then the money spent on the fuel for a conventional power plant over its life time. There are already several gigawatt solar plants going up in Arizona. Would be better if there were more but it's a start..

Imagine if you could do that, but instead of just one little tower, it’s an entire sphere that’s 50,000 feet in diameter

Why you use heated salt! Stay hot while clouds are out!

What is the maintenance cost? I heard good things about molten salt.

GET ON IT

@mrhippo79. Stop mixing up the numbers here! 250MW peak times 8760hours a year equals = 2,19TWh. (250 * 10^6 J / s * 8760h/year). Of course its not peak all the time (because of night and shade and sun - angles) . Say its peak sunny about 2500 hours/year. Then the produced amount would be: 250MW * 2500h/year = 0.625TWh or 625GWh. Still a handsome amount of power from a desert that can't produce anything else of value.

Chile is working very hard on it in Atacama desert...take a look

THAT! WAS! AWESOME! i loved that so much, what an awesome way to change the world! fantastic!!!! :D

Big thanks :)

Haha, I was thinking about storaging heat. There is still something missing in this idea, you can use it for desaltination of sea water and use that water to provide energy trough a water power central.

Forgot to mention molten salt thermal energy storage

The system works only efficiently if the sun is traveling high up, right? Otherwise, the efficiency would be low because the movement is limited to one axis. Meaning it would be only efficient in the region of the equator.

How electricity can a single house generate by itself?

Molten salt FTW! Especially for terraforming Venus.

SINGLE PLANT CAN GENERATE 250 MW ? WHAT ABOUT COST PER 250 MW ?

I'm loving it :)

AWWWEEEESOOMMMME!!!!!

@questionsleadtotruth What's your alternative for money? nice username by the way

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!

How did i get here…

Can I Use this some information and the animation form your site for my project .....please

Excuse me, but how large are these plants? I would like to know because I am doing a project and I have a limited space to make things to generate electricity.

Everybody should be responsible for their own power and each house be powered with solar energy.

so what happens on cloudy days?

Omg 10 years ago

The Department of Energy appears to be busy. Keep it up! What about the use of magnetic current?

Interesting! Could you elaborate or are you willing to refer to more information about the criticism on CSP or the benefits/explanation of PV / VAST etc. Much appreciated!

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@SunGreenSolarEnergy a tiny almost unmeassurable ammount

So even the department of energy has a KZfaq channel nowadays eh, lol guess I shouldn't be surprised.

there is no L in trough

How much land would such a power plant need compared to a modern coal burner?

hi

I just figured out how to produce energy that can be given back the grid in Arizona three to four times a day in Alaska the same amount and how I thought to do this how can we do this so that the homeowner never has to worry about the longevity of their batteries anymore and we do it by converting to capacitor high low capacitors that are capable of storing the years worth of energy capacitors that can give back to grid three or four times a day capacitors capacitors people we need to do this I don't even have a home yet but my first home is going to have solar panels with capacitors

2010

I did it quickly and efficiently with instructions from Avasva webpage.

Who else is doing this for school?

Here is the beautiful Solar post cap lights : amazon.com/shops/sogrand

That is closer to solar thermal, not solar concentrated.

Why did you all allow scope to destroy the ice sheet with middlesboro police department?

this has killed a lot of birds....:( literally fried them