Hi Russell,
Does this facility actually exists or is this a concept?
Some of the pictures seem like "artist representations" to me...
Best regards
		Luis



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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Russell McMahon
Sent: 25 September 2006 10:50
To: PIC List
Subject: [EE] Energy - Solar Power - Israeli Mojave plan.. .

At least some Americans (somewhere between the Straits of Magellan and 
Point Barrow) know that about 90% of the total commercial production 
of solar electricity is made in a single plant in the Mojave Desert, 
USA. Some of those may know that it the plant was provided by an 
Israeli company*. Some of those (and others)(maybe even jAMES) may 
know that the system uses not PV cells but heated oil which in turn 
produces water-steam to drive turbines to make electricity.

The same company will sell you a domestic "round the clock hot water" 
solar heating system. Good trick if you can do it :-).

Rather more here:


        http://www.isracast.com/Articles/Article.aspx?ID=71 .. .




        Russell

* which keeps reincarnating itself.

ALL *really* vast engineering projects require either government 
underwriting or total payment for, or for the original investors to 
lose out badly and be bought out by others who make it work, or who 
are in turn bought out by others, who in turn ... until it reaches a 
point where the economics works. cf eg Delta Project, Concorde, 
Shuttle, Iridium, Chunnel, Nuclear power, ... .



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