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Nevada Solar One starts up

June 7, 2007 By Rod Adams

Nevada Solar One, a 64 MWe capacity solar thermal energy plant, started up yesterday – Wednesday June 6, 2007. The plant cost its developers $250 million and it is projected to produce 124 million kilowatt-hours per year. The plant covers approximately 400 acres with mirrored troughs that concentrate the heat from the desert sun (the plant is near Las Vegas) onto pipes that contain a heat transfer fluid.

Here is a link to my source for that information – Solar thermal energy making a comeback. You can find a series of photos for the plant here – Images: Solar thermal heats up in the desert.

Here are some questions for thought – how much do you predict that the electricity from the plant will cost? What do you think of the prospects for engineering or manufacturing improvements that will reduce the overall cost of this kind of project? Is this something that will save the earth from the effects of fossil fuel burning? (Okay – that last one is a loaded question. 🙂 )

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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