Each cleanup action is one huge step towards clean planet

We are not fooling ourselves – some more big steps need to be made to get us there.

No group, organisation or country who is able to clean Earth alone

We have arrived to a doorstep where we need to come together to pass through.

We need ecologically intelligent consumption

Each one of us can make a big difference just by becoming more aware about our choices as a consumer – to buy less, to favor products that have been produced without harming the environment and always using any chance to give new life to already used products.

We need sustainable design and production

The choices that we have are born not in the store, but in the heads of the designers and producers.

People must: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Respect yourself, enjoy and appreciate what you already have and you will discover that you don’t need that much stuff to begin with. Sometimes your old is someone else’s new and vice versa

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Friday, October 8, 2010

Concentrating Solar Power

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Concentrating Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies use mirrors to focus the sun's light energy and convert it into heat to create steam to drive a turbine that generates electrical power. These plants consist of two parts: one that collects solar energy and converts it to heat, and another that converts the heat energy to electricity.

Molten salt storage technology could allow us to overcome the intermittency of sun and wind and go 100% renewable. In our first video Russell Beard of Earthrise goes on a tour of Gemasolar, near Seville, Spain - the first Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plus molten salt storage plant to produce energy 24 hours per day. This power tower plant produces 20MW, enough to power 25,000 homes but much bigger plants are now in operation or being built in the US, the Middle East, Chile and elsewhere.

This video explains what CSP is, how it works, and how systems like parabolic troughs produce renewable power. A single CSP plant can generate enough power for about 90,000 homes.

"PROS AND CONS OF CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER"



Origin: renewable-energy-dummies.blogspot.com

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