1 The Only Way Is Up: CSP Builds Up Heat
If you're wondering where the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is heading from here, crane your neck and look upward. Forecasts show industry growth climbing steeply from 2010. Source: Renewable Energy World
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2 First molten salt solar thermal plant debuts in Italy
Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen , Monday 26 July 2010 at 13:28:00 Longer heat retention of salts means plant can operate overnight and in intermittent sunshine What is claimed to be the world’s first solar thermal concentration plant to use molten salt as the heat transfer fluid has been opened by Italian energy company Enel in Sicily . The 5MW Archimede plant – named after the rows of huge ... Source: vnunet.com
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3 Siemens Wins CSP Today Award
At the CSP Today Awards Ceremony held at the fourth annual Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Summit in San Francisco, USA, organized by CSP Today, Siemens Energy won the award for CSP Competitiveness. Two key innovations were the decisive factors: improved solar field optical efficiency, thanks to the new UVAC 2010 solar receiver, and the use of industrialized manufacturing techniques to support ... Source: ThomasNet
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4 Throwing caution to the sun
Recently we treated guests to a brunch of champagne risotto, zucchini quiche, baked sweet potatoes, curried root soup and banana bread, all at one get-together. Yet we didn’t spend a second in our kitchen, and although we know one white-tablecloth chef personally, this wasn’t a catered event. Source: Southwest Journal
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5 Thermally Stabilized Beam Expander Helps Verify Optical Performance
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received an order from Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG. for a high performance, thermally stabilised beam expander. The beam expander will be used as part of the Tesat Optical System Test Bed for verification of the optical performance of their Laser Communication Terminals (LCTs). Source: PhotonicsOnline
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6 Could Silver Parabolic Top at $714 per Ounce?
Imagining what is in store for silver given its historical price relationship with gold. Source: Resource Investor
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7 Areva Boosts Solar Supersteam Parameters in Bakersfield
Areva Solar is constructing a fourth 2.5-MW solar steam generator at its Kimberlina solar thermal plant in Bakersfield, CA, increasing both pressure and temperature in a modular demonstration of its Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology. The modular installation is a precursor to a 44-MW configuration to augment generation at the Kogan Creek coal-fired generator near Dalby, in ... Source: Renewable Energy World
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8 Quick 'n' Dirty
2010-07-15 Source: The Durango Telegraph
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9 First ever hybrid solar-coal power plant operating
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first ever hybrid solar-coal power plant is now operating at Unit 2 of the Cameo Generating Station near Palisade in Colorado. The demonstration project was built by Xcel Energy as part of its new Innovative Clean Technology (ICT) Program, and is designed to decrease the use of coal, increase the plant`s efficiency, lower carbon dioxide emissions, and test the commercial ... Source: PhysOrg
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10 China Commodities Sentiment
In today’s ever-more interrelated financial world, China’s stock-market action is growing increasingly influential everywhere else. Source: Resource Investor
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