Post by Coincidencejust a coincidence on Jul 9, 2008 10:45:57 GMT -5
U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects
By DAN FROSCH
DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
www.nytimes. com/2008/ 06/27/us/ 27solar.html? partner=rssuserl and&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
I wonder just who they are protecting??
Theoretically, Stirling dish farms with a total area of 100 miles
square could replace all the fossil fuels now burned to generate
electricity in the entire U.S.
(read that again ^ )
What happens in the California desert over the next few years could determine whether thermal solar power can help end the dominance of fossil fuels.
<www.business week.com/ magazine/ content/05_ 37/b3950067_ mz018.htm>
(HEY lets take a 2 year break...need to study something... this could be serious...unload my Exxon stock)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —On a perfect New Mexico winter day — with the sky almost 10 percent brighter than usual — Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES’s “Serial #3” solar dish Stirling system at Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility.
www.sandia. gov/news/ resources/ releases/ 2008/solargrid. html/
en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Stirling_ Energy_Systems
Sterling Energy
(same company that developed the FUELESS engine)
www.stirling energy.com/
By DAN FROSCH
DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
www.nytimes. com/2008/ 06/27/us/ 27solar.html? partner=rssuserl and&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
I wonder just who they are protecting??
Theoretically, Stirling dish farms with a total area of 100 miles
square could replace all the fossil fuels now burned to generate
electricity in the entire U.S.
(read that again ^ )
What happens in the California desert over the next few years could determine whether thermal solar power can help end the dominance of fossil fuels.
<www.business week.com/ magazine/ content/05_ 37/b3950067_ mz018.htm>
(HEY lets take a 2 year break...need to study something... this could be serious...unload my Exxon stock)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —On a perfect New Mexico winter day — with the sky almost 10 percent brighter than usual — Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES’s “Serial #3” solar dish Stirling system at Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility.
www.sandia. gov/news/ resources/ releases/ 2008/solargrid. html/
en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Stirling_ Energy_Systems
Sterling Energy
(same company that developed the FUELESS engine)
www.stirling energy.com/