Morocco Has Fired Up the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant!

Hey. That's clever. Is it new technology?

 

You are following a populist demagoge who knows absolutely nothing.

 

Now who's a bloody parrot?

 

Hey. It's really clever. I'm trying to figure out if the technology is new.

 

50% of Morocco's energy could fit inside a car battery. We have 300 million people that use stuff. They don't. Why is logic impossible for liberals to understand?

 

They have a population of 35 million.

Is Trump going to build more coal fired power plants?

 

What solar or wind projects did Trump shut down?

 

Fossil fuels are polluting the atmosphere and increasing the greenhouse effect, why do repubtards have such difficulty understanding science?

 

How many new projects is he supporting?

 

I understand science just fine. Do you use electricity? Do you have a car? Why are you polluting? Oh, you need things. That's different.

 

Coal, certainly. We know it works. There are a lot of problems with solar, notably the storage problem. But natural gas is even better.

Where do you keep the electricity you make in the sunshine for use at night?

Solar is the power source of the future, and always will be.

 

If coal cannot compete with natural gas and goes out of business I will understand

But greenies have to pass laws and mandates to hamstring coal before it becomes economically uncompetative

Its as if teddy roosevelt "encouraged" farmers to buy tractors by shooting all their horses

 

No. Trump will not build a single one. Utility companies will build them. They could also build solar plants, if they so choose. But they choose not to.

Why do you suppose that is?

 

Too busy with the conspiracy theories

 

You store it for 6 hours at night in molten salt. Bet you a dollar Trump doesn't know that.. Bet you that he hasn't even read an executive summary on the Paris Accord.

 

Cause they can't compete with China.

 

Well not quite. First you onky get about 6-8 hours of full sunlight before it gets too low so you need more than 6 hours of storage. And where does the power come that you are storing, you have to enlarge to plant to be able to produce that along with on demand power you have to create. And then of courae the energy losses.

"BrightSource, a co-owner and the developer of Ivanpah, appeared to admit that storing energy is a critical component of any solar thermal plant even before the turbine at the Ivanpah plant had completed its first rotation. “Changing dynamics in the California energy markets point to the need for more flexible resources, such as concentrating solar thermal power with storage,” the company said in April 2013 while suspending a project in California, as reported by Greentech Media.

Even with the ability to store energy, though, the Crescent Dunes plant will still run out of power after a few cloudy days in a row. And since NRG’s Holland estimates that the region around Ivanpah received 9 percent less sunlight than normal last year, with a deficit as great as 23 percent throughout July, that could still be a problem. Smith says the plant should perform better than Ivanpah, but how much better?

“Seeing the two, in a similar region, and comparing performance, will be enlightening as we move forward,” Barineau says. “We will have a clearer picture of those large-scale solar thermal plants over the next couple of years.”

No matter what the result, Barineau suspects the heyday of utility-scale solar thermal plants may have already passed. “I think you’re not going to see much utility-scale solar thermal in the U.S. in the next few years, at least,” he says. “I think overall solar thermal is not a dead technology -- I just think it’s going to have different applications and move away from utility-scale.”

Barineau says he still sees potential in the small-scale use of solar thermal technologies, such as generating steam for industrial processes, but doubts another giant plant will be built."
http://www.ibtimes.com/shadow-ivanp...acked-solar-thermal-power-plant-gears-1816410

 

Y'all are hysterical. What makes you think not participating in a global wealth distribution scheme negates any technological advances?

 

Is that what Trump told you?

 

Evidently you don't even know what you post.

 

You mean subsidizing? Why do they have to be subsidizied?

 

Denmark is the size of the top of Texas.

 

What happens after 3 or 4 days of cloudy and rain?

 

The US is going backwards when the biggest solar panel thing is not in the US, but in a 3rd world country.

 

what happens when you need to preform maintenance in a coal plant?