Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Five advantages of the Solar Highbeams Project

For the same central height, a solar highbeams plant harvests than three times the land area.  (Underlying image of  Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System quoted from the Washington Post.)


A solar highbeams plant catches more than three times the sunlight from an acre of land. (Aerial photo of  Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System quoted from Google Maps.)


Solar high beams heliostats all move identically; this allows them to be mechanically ganged.


The focal zone in a solar highbeams plant is at ground level; this makes large-scale storage, power conversion, and industrial uses practical. (Glass furnace image quoted from Mirion Technologies.)


The rabbit advantage: because each solar highbeams power plant is a glass-making furnace as well, it can make the glass for additional plants. Making the glass for two more plants would delay power operations only a matter of months.

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