"SunCatcher" Solar Thermal Power Debut. This Isn't Photovoltaic [PV] Solar.

List the cost of both types then.

 

Silhouette, go back and look at your original post.

That quote is from your original posted article and from 2010. Yet this is when you posted it...02-12-2012, 11:47 AM. Since the subject of this thread has had a major component maker go bankrupt, I'm asking you how much it will cost to replace the Stirling reflectors with something else? Was Stirling already paid for the reflectors they were supposed to provide before going out of business?

If you "flew by" last year you should be able to tell us which grid system they were using Stirling or the linear design? For some reason you can't, why?

If your going to give financial investment advice like the above, you should be able to answer the questions above. If not.....well you know...

 

We only saw the towers being lifted for the grid, not the facility itself. Will look into that though..

Nuclear is finished. Coal and oil are in big trouble from the obvious weird weather and ever-frightening record-warms and colds everywhere at wrong times of the year. So put on a jacket or wear sandals accordingly right? Tell that to important food-staple crops we all rely on to stay alive. You chill beehives with a freak cold snap in June, your apples/cherries/almonds/peaches/etc. don't get pollenated the next year. You cook your corn under 120 temps with no water for two months straight in Summer and you can kiss that crop goodbye.

We are already teetering on the brink agriculturally-speaking to keep up with world appetites, let alone what the ice sheets melting are doing to wildlife, ocean currents and such. I wonder if they're right about that melt shifting that current that runs up to England? If they are, British better learn how to build igloos.

And so on. Using solar thermal in tandem with carbon grid systems [doesn't even have to be near one, just the power output grid], is the way of the future to create steam to drive turbines. Relying on solar steam instead for most of the high-use times of the year is a COLLOSAL reduction in the carbon footprint. The technology is the same on the output end as carbon or nuclear, only it's a whole lot cheaper [and safer] to not mine, process or pay for fuel and mitigate unfathomable disasters inherent in nuclear steam especially.

It serves your master's interests [apparently] to obfuscate, be myopic and confuse the simple facts of the matter. But anyone with basic brain function can do the big-math in spite of your attempts to befuddle..