Dr Fred Morse is a veteran of the solar industry. He started out in solar assessing the viability of the resource for Nixon, helped save the industry when a report by the NRC at the time was trying to close down the US Department of Energy Solar programs and he now is pushing forward with Abengoa's Solana plant and the industry in general as head of the CSP division Solar Energy Industries Association. Dr Morse speaks to Matthew
Invented by Wolfgang over 25 years ago 1000s of Scheffler dishes are now installed at 100s of locations around the world. Wolfgang Scheffler has made his dish designs and associated intellectual property available for free to create a solar world.
Doerte Laing from the German Aerospace Centre DLR explains the advantages of Concrete Thermal Storage for Solar Power Plant operations upto 500 degrees C. Laing says this technology is now ready for a full commercial scale demonstration.
Beyond Zero’s Matthew Wright and Scott Bilby talk to Santiago Arias, Chief Infrastructure Officer of Torresol about a first-of-its-kind commercial 'Power Tower' that supplies electricity 24 hours a day.
Beyond Zero Radio talks to Managing Director Solar Power Group, Count Jacques de Lalaing about Solar Power Group’s Linear Fresnel Solar Thermal technology including SPG’s achievement of steam at 450 degrees Celcius in a Linear Fresnel system – a world first
Involvement with Solar Thermal electricity from the 1970s on. US$50 was the cost then, the reduction to $10 per watt came in the 80s. Then the goal was $2, and still is.
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