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Solar Islands: A new concept for low-cost solar energy at very large scale

Posted on May 20, 2008

This is a guest post by Dr. Thomas Hinderling. Dr. Hinderling is the CEO of CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA. One of CSEM's most exciting projects concerns the design of a new class of large scale concentrating solar power systems, called Solar Islands 1. This article introduces the solar island design to the readers of TOD 2.[break]Introduction the ProblemDuring the next decades, the generation of sustainable energy will become one of the main challenges of our civilization. Worldwide energy demand is expected to grow from about 10 GTep (1010 Tep [Ton Equivalen...

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