--- Horace Heffner wrote: > Sterling is expensive by comparison: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2dufax > Sandia labs model 25 kW at $50,000 is $2.00/W "Why hasn't Stirling Energy's technology made more of a splash in the power business?
But Horace, you must have sent the incorrect URL because this article clearly states that the ONLY large utility 'grid power plant' in the USA - the SCE plant is going with the Sandia Stirling ! and has rejected photovoltaic for comparative cost reasons! IOW the article presents the opposite case and argument which you intended. And that is without the benefit of mass production. The article ends: "Stirling dish farms with a total area of 100 miles square could replace all the fossil fuels now burned to generate electricity in the entire U.S. What happens in the California desert over the next few years could determine whether thermal solar power can help end the dominance of fossil fuels."
