Green Options » power towers http://greenoptions.com/tag/power-towers Posts tagged 'power towers' Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Power Towers Store Enough Solar Energy to Run a City http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/16/power-towers-store-enough-solar-energy-to-run-a-city/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/16/power-towers-store-enough-solar-energy-to-run-a-city/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:04:16 +0000 Carol Gulyas http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/16/power-towers-store-enough-solar-energy-to-run-a-city/

_42877005_mirrors_bbc_203jpg.jpegWe have featured Concentrated Solar Power several times in this space, so it was nice to see that the Science section of the New York Times is finally starting to cover large-scale solar thermal plants used for generating electricity. (An article on SkyStream wind turbines is in the same section!)

The great news about solar thermal “Power Towers” is that they are able to store solar energy, which has always been a problem before. How does a solar “Power Tower” work?

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