Solar power plant - one for the anarcho-futurists

Joseph K. "the thinking man's idiot"

Posts: 7659 Joined: 14-03-06 Location: Brighton

Submitted by Joseph K. on 3 May, 2007 - 09:56.

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It is Europe's first commercially operating power station using the Sun's energy this way and at the moment its operator, Solucar, proudly claims that it generates 11 Megawatts (MW) of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6616651.stm

apparently 300% of the cost of fossil fuel electricity, but then again that's because fossil fuel generation externalises its real costs.

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