Concentrated Solar Power: The pragmatic way to harvest the Sun?
With the impending arrival of Nevada’s Solar One project, a 64MW CSP array, it’s time to ask ourselves if this is the most pragmatic way to scale solar in a cost effective manner at utility scale? One item is mentioned with respect to this project: using salt as a means to store heat to boost the production from a peaking capability at daylight toward a baseload characteristics exhibited by hydro, geothermal, and fossil plants.
Further information about concentrating solar power (CSP) may be found at:
http://www.trecers.net/index.html
and
http://www.trec-uk.org.uk/index.htm
and
http://www.trec.net.au/