Right, Not cost effective. No they are a competitor to trough technology and UNPROVEN. I can build a 300 MW Natural Gas Plant for $500M, not $2.2B. It has been really cold this winter so I say fire up the gas turbines until something better comes along
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Luz was trough technology and Solar thermal oil. Luz went BANKRUPT >> > > Yes, they did. Do you know why? Because they could not get contracts to > supply enough electricity. The power companies forced them to scale down > their plants again and again, to the point where they were not cost > effective. And do you know why the power companies did that? Press reports > say they did it as a favor the fossil fuel industry, with whom they are > Best Friends. > > The plants now being built evolved from trough technology. They are an > improvement on that. Technology tends to improve when you build more and > more things. If the power companies and the fossil fuel companies had not > driven Luz out of business, by now solar thermal would probably be far > cheaper than coal, natural gas, wind or nuclear. That is according to many > projections made over the last 30 years. > > - Jed > >
