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Solar thermal technology on an industrial scale

Solar thermal technology on an industrial scale

Our sun produces 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts of energy every second and the belief is that it will last another 5 billion years. The U.S. reached peak oil production in 1970, and it is impossible to predict when global oil production will peak, but it is admitted that when he went to the party is over. The sun, however, is the most reliable source and abundant energy.

Solar Thermal vs. Photovoltaic

It is important to understand that solar thermal technology is not the same as the solar panel, or

PV technology. Solar thermal electricity production concentrated sunlight to produce heat and that heat is used to operate a heat engine, which turns a generator to produce electricity.

The working fluid is heated by concentrated sunlight can be a liquid or gas. Different fluids, water, oil, salt, air, nitrogen, helium, etc. various types of engines are steam engines, gas turbines, Stirling engines, etc. All of these engines can be very effective, often between 30% and 40%, and are capable of producing 10 to 100 megawatts of power.

Photovoltaic, or PV energy conversion, other hand, converts sunlight directly into electricity. This means that solar panels only work during the day because electricity storage is not a particularly effective method. heat storage is a much easier and efficient, that is what makes solar thermal attractive way to produce energy on a large scale.

Heat can be stored during the day and then converted into electricity at night. Solar thermal plants that have storage capacities can significantly improve both the economy dispatchability and solar electricity.

Competition with fossil fuels

Solar thermal is currently leading the way technology's most profitable large-scale solar. It beats other systems currently PV, and it can also beat the cost of electricity from fossil fuels like natural gas. In terms of low cost and high negative impact on the environment, nothing can compete with coal.

But the major industry players such as solar thermal eSolar, BrightSource, or Abengoa, has already beaten the price of natural gas and solar, and they intend to beat the price of coal in the near future.

With a planet increasingly industrialized, the leaders of solar thermal technology are growing market. The question is, and always will be, how solar thermal technology more economical. There are currently two methods of collecting solar thermal. The first is the collection focal line.

The second collection center point. Focus Line is less expensive, less technically difficult, but not as effective as the focal point. The basis of this technology is a parabola-shaped mirror that rotates on one axis throughout the day to follow the sun. Point focus technique requires a series of mirrors around the tower, also known as a power tower. The mirrors focus sunlight onto a point on the tower, which then transfers the heat into usable energy more.

Focus Point, initially more expensive and technically more nuanced outperforms linear focus when the results are concerned. The focal point in a network of mirrors focus line can reach temperatures of 250 ° C.

It is a temperature sufficient to operate a steam turbine, but compared to the 500 ° C

and higher temperatures can reach the focal point, the extra effort and cost is balanced by its capacity more efficiently. High yield is important because it leads a decrease in both land use and the actual cost per kWh of the plant.

Major Solar Players Thermal

Spain and Australia are the country's current leader in the production of solar thermal energy. Spain produces already a large portion of their electricity that their solar thermal, solar power plants built by Abengoa and Acciona as heat - the creator of the PS20 and PS10 soon.

The California-based energy company, solar thermal, eSolar, and society Israeli BrightSource, have a rapid growth of competitors. Abengoa is the opening of the first power in turn be used for energy production commercial. eSolar working with Southern California Edison to use solar thermal technology to produce 245 MW of power. Similarly, BrightSource entered into contracts with

Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation to bring even more solar heat generated in California.

Land Requirements

Another challenge for solar thermal is the amount of space required for the efficient production of energy. Not only space but the space that receives a constant amount of direct sunlight. Solar thermal power plants require usually 1 / 4 to 1 square mile of land. A glimmer of hope of global climate change and human impact on the ground is that agricultural land over becomes increasingly unsuitable for agriculture production. This land, probably originally chosen because of its exposure to the sun, just waiting to be used for the production of solar thermal energy. Use of desertification can be a boon for solar thermal buying property and growth.

With solar thermal technologies being developed and advanced by companies such as eSolar,

BrightSource, Abengoa, Acciona, Ausra and Schott Solar, the world has a new alternative. The benefits of eliminating coal from our energy supply are numerous. By not burning fossil fuels, countries can be truly energy independent.

In addition, by limiting and we hope to eliminate carbon emissions, pollution of a nation

will not be swept away by the wind in the territories of any other country, further cementing the notion of

independence. Solar thermal power plants are under construction worldwide, and many planned new plants are in the works.

Solar thermal is the current champion of the cost of solar electricity, but improvements are needed to beat the cost of fossil fuels at lower cost and in a regulatory climate without subsidies or carbon taxes.

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