Comments on: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at Stanford: Full Video

By: Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:09:47 +0000

According to Sargent and Lundy review of US DOE numbers on Molten Salt Power Towers — after 8.7GW of Molten Salt Solar Thermal Power Towers installed globally the cost will be down to US 3.5c kwh (2003 money).

http://www.nrel.gov/csp/pdfs/34440.pdf

So we already have a technology ready to go — we just need to support the build out of the first 8.7GW and then the cost will be parity with new coal. The beauty of towers is they output 3x the power of troughs at sites further away from the equator.

By: Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:52:52 +0000

Stephen Chu fails to mention the most important energy source for the future.

Solar Thermal with storage power plants, in particular point focusing systems such as Molten Salt Power Towers developed at US DOE funded Sandia National Laboratories and now being commercialised by Solar Reserve and Sener/Torresol

By: Brie Welzer

Brie Welzer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:10:42 +0000

If you are interested in hearing more about clean energy and the growing movement to spur innovative technologies, join in tomorrow night’s seminar – by Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) – featuring Teryn Norris discussing RE-ENERYSE.
Email Brielle.Welzer@sefora.org to participate in this live online seminar at 8:00 PM EST on Tuesday, March 9.

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