RE: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

From: ChemE Stewart * OOPS DEFAULT * http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/nrg-ivanpah-faces-chance-of-default-PGE-contract Just to avoid any wrong implications, Stewart - any default would be a bookkeeping adjustment for Google’s tax purposes. Solar is growing rapidly in Cal. and

RE: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

There is a recently funded (ARPA-E) technology which could push solar into higher demand by lowering cost per kW. It is a “brilliant” idea, so to speak. There are two primary methods for using sunlight: direct conversion to electricity using photovoltaics, or focusing sunlight onto a fluid that

[Vo]:isoperibolic calorimetry

I know very little about calorimetry. When I see reports along the lines of "using isoperibolic calorimetry, we saw 200 J of excess heat," etc., I think to myself "perhaps there were 200 J of excess heat. I wouldn't know for sure." Recently there has been an analysis purporting to show that

[Vo]:MY WISH IS 2016 YEAR OF AWAKENING

http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/12/dec-30-2015-my-wish-2016-year-of-lenr.html self explanatory, with a bit of music Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Mirrors last a long time in the desert? With wind and sand blowing? 375,000 motors turning? Taxpayers paid $1.6B for this plant, Google is a minority. BTW this plant burns natural gas...

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:03:42 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Arizona State U is developing a hybrid solar energy system that modifies the >single axis CSP “trough” design, converting the mirrored trough with solar >cells that collect direct rays while reflecting the rest of

RE: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

Looking at the super bright incandescence of the tower of the CSP station at Ivanpah (makes a nice screensaver) also brings to mind another possible hybrid… plasmonics. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6949 “Plasmonic materials for energy: from physics to applications” by Svetlana Boriskina of MIT.

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

ChemE Stewart wrote: Mirrors last a long time in the desert? With wind and sand blowing? They last for a remarkably long time. Many of the SEGS parabolic mirror generators in the Mojave desert have been working since the late 1980s and they are still in good condition. The

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

I wrote: > The taxpayers will get their money back eventually. The power companies > are not going to stop buying electricity from this installation. They may > renegotiate the price . . . > Source: I think I read this at Renewable Energy World, but I cannot find the article. Anyway, that is

Re: [Vo]:Request upvote support

Hi Jed. Just recommended your link and tweeted it elsewhere. BTW, just 17 thumbs up? Not even a Readers' Pick or NYT Pick? :( What a shame. It would appear that you need 50-60 more thumbups before it will be a readers' pick. On 25 December 2015 at 18:25, Jed Rothwell

Re: [Vo]:Request upvote support

Esa Ruoho wrote: Hi Jed. Just recommended your link and tweeted it elsewhere. > Thanks! > BTW, just 17 thumbs up? Not even a Readers' Pick or NYT Pick? :( What a > shame. > It is listed in the Reader's Picks, but it is way down the list, because it only got 17 votes. The