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Posted on September 05, 2008

By Joseph RommNature recently ran an article ($ub. req'd) on Energy alternatives: Electricity without carbon. Like most discussions written by people who don't follow clean energy closely, the article lumped baseload solar (also known as concentrated solar thermal power) in with solar PV and generally treated it as an afterthought. Here is everything that they wrote about baseload solar: Solar cells are not the only technology by which sunlight can be turned into electricity. Concentrated solar thermal systems use mirrors to focus the Sun's heat, typically heating up a working fluid t...

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