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13 Apr 2011  •  Energy Curators  •  0 Comments  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,

Google invests US$168 million in world’s largest solar power tower plant

Curated By Tom George

Google has chipped in a US$168 million investment in what will be the world’s largest solar power tower plant. To be located on 3,600 acres of land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will boast 173,000 heliostats that will concentrate the sun’s rays onto a solar tower [...]

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26 Mar 2011  •  Energy Curators  •  0 Comments  •  Tags: , , ,

The Japanese Nuclear Power Crisis Deepens

Curated By Tom George

Headlines about Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant are becoming rare. But that says more about fickle nature of the media than it does about the tremulous state of affairs at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant (FDI). Despite progress in restoring electricity to some areas of FDI, a  member of the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority commented yesterday, [...]

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