{"id":147,"date":"2007-04-19T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-04-19T06:37:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T13:37:40","slug":"concentrated-solar-power-the-pragmatic-way-to-harvest-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Concentrated Solar Power: The pragmatic way to harvest the Sun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/csp-field.gif\" alt=\"Concentrated Solar Power mirror array\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith the impending arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewableenergyaccess.com\/rea\/news\/story?id=43336\">Nevada&#8217;s Solar One<\/a> project, a 64MW CSP array, it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the impending arrival of Nevada&#8217;s Solar One project, a 64MW CSP array, it&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}