The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
—Timbuk 3
Courtney peers into one of the heliostats of the BrightSource solar thermal facility in the Negev Desert of Israel.
Each of these flat mirrors aims the sun at a boiler tower, heating it to 1000°F to drive a steam generator, feeding electricity to the grid.
BrightSource believes that this will be the least expensive source of renewable energy and cost competitive with fossil fuels.
I just calculated that for their current projects in the U.S. alone, they will install 2 million of these mirrors… which will power 1.4 million homes… about 1.4 mirrors per home.
Cynthia E. Wood, born1945, Niall Oswald, Duncan Rawlinson, and 14 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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Project Sustainability 45 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Project Sustainability, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
ceo-me 28 months ago | reply
Hey Steve,
This seems like one of your many master pieces..
Great shot,
Yes the degradation of the reflective panels is a concern specially in india.
But i have been looking at a small installation in Pune from the past 1+ year,
it hasn't degraded or damaged due to other natural elements. Lemme wait & watch..
Yes Steve coming to the point,
can I have your permission to use this picture on my solar energy based website
www.solarenergyexplorer.com
Hope you reply,
Regards,
ceo-me
jurvetson 24 months ago | reply
sure, all are free with a photo credit link back.
Here is a current shot of the first of three solar fields going in Ivanpah
That's a full golf course to the right for a sense of scale...
born1945 24 months ago | reply
The solar fields have not shown up on Google Earth yet. It will be interesting to see them.