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World?s First 24/7 Solar Power Plant Powers 75,000 Homes
2016-06-21 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eco Watch: SolarReserve`s Crescent Dunes Project in Tonopah, Nevada is quietly providing clean, green solar energy to 75,000 homes in the Silver State even when the sun isn`t shining. Crescent Dunes is the first utility-scale facility in the world to use molten salt for power energy storage capabilities, a technology also known as concentrated solar. With a concentrated solar plant such as Crescent Dunes--including other plants like it around the world--more than 10,000 movable mirrors, or heliostats,...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical