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The “Holy Grail for Renewable Energy”

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Holy Grail for Renewable Energy

Solar Power Makes Electricity Day and Night

One of the arguments often used to denegrate solar power is that they don’t work when it is cloudy or at night. But a new demonstration project in Hawaii proves this isn’t so. Keahole Solar Power has installed an array of Sopogy “Micro-scale Concentrating Solar Power Concentrators” at the Holaniku Solar Farm on Hawaii’s Big Island- a thousand solar collectors covering 3.8 acres, with a thermal energy of 2 megawatts.

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Source: Lloyd Alter (Toronto), TreeHugger

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