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Yep! focussed light anything is a hassle really-- mirrors have to be maintained and positioned. For anything larger than a family, mirrors have to be unrealisti
by gsf_emergency_6 11mo ago
Yep! focussed light anything is a hassle really-- mirrors have to be maintained and positioned. For anything larger than a family, mirrors have to be unrealistically large..
There was a concentrated light power station in north of Vegas, but it bankrupted the company that built it. They didn't think about storage at the time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...
>As of 2023, it is operated by its new owner, Vinci SA, and in a new contract with NV Energy, it now supplies solar energy _at night only_, drawing on [molten salt] thermal energy stored each day.
- gsf_emergency_6 11mo agoSorry my wording was misleading. SolarReserves lived and died on the thermal storage hill. The point about mirrors being a hassle is still relevant, though: >When the plant finally opened in 2015, solar panels had left the Concentrated Solar Power technology in the dust [desert sand?] in terms of efficiency and cost. https://jpt.spe.org/becoming-obsolete-how-high-tech-solar-plant-found-its-way-bankruptcy https://jpt.spe.org/becoming-obsolete-how-high-tech-solar-pl...