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They do it with Mirrors: Concentrating Solar Power
Note 5/3/09 Some more recent CSP articles are here. I’ve just spent some time reviewing a pile of reports on concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies for Ratepayers United Colorado (RUC), so here...
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Holistic Approaches to Energy Problems
H. L. Mencken said, “For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.” When it comes to solving the problems of peak oil and global warming, I also think that the...
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Visual Comparison of Electricity Generation Technologies
I just put together a couple graphs for a talk I’m giving on Monday to give people a visual feel of the various technologies for generating electricity. These come with a gigantic caveat: the numbers...
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CSP for Dictators
When I heard France had offered to provide a nuclear reactor to power a desalinization plant in Libya, it knocked me for a loop. I do believe in carrots to show countries that we don’t always get...
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Denver Tour of Solar Homes Sneak Peak; links to National Tour
Preview the Denver Tour of Solar Homes Online The Denver area Tour of Solar Homes takes place in less than a month, and this year you can preview some of the buildings involved online. Check out the...
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Transport Fuels and Solar Technologies: Bird’s Eye View
For my last couple AltEnergyStocks Columns, I’ve been taking a step back and looking at how we can get an understanding of the broad trends of energy technologies. Last week, I added to the Visual...
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Heating a building with heat from a road
The December 6 Technology Quarterly from The Economist magazine profiles a Dutch office building which is both heated and cooled using heat (or cold) from the asphalt of the road outside the building,...
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Concentrating Solar Power: An In-Depth Look
I recently interviewed several industry participants and research scientists about Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and associated thermal storage. Several articles came out of these interviews: Why...
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