Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday January 2, 2008 @10:26AM from the would-you-like-fries-with-that dept.

rcastro0 writes "Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies, announced today that it will start to commercialize a new type of solar power plant. A new company called SolarReserve will be created to provide heat-resistant pumps and other equipment, as well as the expertise in handling and storing salt that has been heated to more than 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit. According to venture capitalist Vinod Khosla 'Three percent of the land area of Morocco could support all of the electricity for Western Europe.' Molten Salt storage is already used in Nevada's Solar One power plant. Is this the post-hydrocarbon world finally knocking?"

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Re:Nuclear is not the future.. by gambolt · 2008-01-02 14:38 · Score: 1, Flamebait

if the continued use of fossil fuels is going to lead to the end of all life on earth anyway, who cares? Better risk making parts of the planet uninhabitable than to make all of it uninhabitable.