Tomas Martin

The Long Case for Solar Energy

jay bird - indeed, it's pretty impressive and this is a technology well under the radar as far as I can tell. Essentially aside from the molten salt and the steam turbine, all that is required is glass and steel - very simple from a construction point of view compared to nuclear. That 14x is just for solar thermal too - it doesn't include Stirling Engines, concentrating photovoltaics, thin film or silicon photovoltaics.