Desert Solar Power: Opportunities For Green Energy, Yet Challenges In Application

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The appeal of building solar power plants in deserts like Ivanpah’s Mojave is obvious, especially when the mind-blowing statistics get thrown around, such as: The world’s deserts receive more energy beamed down from the sun in six hours than humankind uses in a year. But statistics are one thing, building a few thousand gigawatts of solar power is quite another…

Read Full Article, “Is Anything Stopping a Truly Massive Build-Out of Desert Solar Power?” Scientific American

The World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant, Big Picture, Guardian UK
The world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, Shams 1, launched on Sunday, representing a major milestone in the development of renewable energy in the Middle East. Taking three years to build, the $600m plant is located in Abu Dhabi’s western region, the heart of the UAE’s hydrocarbon industry.

Waiting for the sun, The Economist

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