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Solar Towers: The Holy Grail of Solar?
The Achilles heel of renewable energy has been its challenge withintermittency. Other problems include its use of natural resources suchas water for cooling. What if you could design a utility-scale solarpower plant that was persistent, not intermittent, and also used zerowater? Turns out you can. Unlike photovoltaic technology and other solar technologies, two Solar Towers [...]
Los Angeles Office Towers to Adopt Solar
The Metro Park Towers commercial office facility in Los Angeles,California is being converted to a cleaner energy source while becomingmore energy efficient overall, one project at a time. The California energy services provider Regreen Corporation has taken the responsibility to complete both tasks. Regreen has alreadycompleted a retrofit of the lighting system within the buildings,slashing total energy use of [...]
Indian Government Considers Solar for Cellphone Towers
The ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Indian government is expected to come up with a proposal that would require the telecomoperators to convert their diesel-powered cellphone towers to renewablesolar energy. The plan is expected to be a part of India’s NationalSolar Mission, which aims to generate up to 20GW of solar power [...]
EnviroMission Considering Arizona For Solar Towers
One of the main criticisms of solar power as a key energy source isthat it doesn’t work the minute the sun sets. Australian company EnviroMission Ltd., however,believes it has a solution on a grand scale. With its eye on a vaststretch of barren land in western Arizona, it hopes to build a solar tower, a gargantuan power [...]