World's Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

[OKIsItJustMe]

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/20374/20190419/world-s-largest-concentrated-solar-power-plant.htm

World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant

Aileen Inocando | Apr 19, 2019 09:35 AM EDT

With the inevitable depletion of traditional fuel sources, many nations are now spending time, money and effort into the development of alternative and renewable energy sources, and Dubai seems to be ahead of the game.

Dubai has started construction on what is to be the largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the world ambitiously stating that they are planning to have it operational by the fourth quarter of 2020.

A report from Arab News stated that, 'the plant will have an estimated capacity of 700 megawatts and a power storage system that will keep the lights of Dubai shining for up to 15 hours after sunset. The project will comprise the world's tallest solar tower of 260 meters, and is said to be as tall as Emirates Towers in Dubai. The solar power plant will cover 3,750 hectares- i.e. equivalent to 4,500 football fields. The solar park as a whole is expected to produce five gigawatts when completed. Noor Energy 1, as the project is called, will dwarf the current record holder, Noor-Ouarzazate CSP in Morocco.'

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"It's a completely different technology because you have to do a heat exchange and (use) steam turbines, a process that makes it more expensive than solar PV, the main benefit is storage because you can store heat, while in panels you can't and lithium batteries are still expensive." This statement comes from the fact that at this time Lithium-ion batteries are the only plausible option that has he as a potential means of storing solar energy

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[mr_lebowski]

1. Lithium-ion may be the 'only plausible option' in certain places ... maybe Dubai is one ...

But there is also the pumped-water storage option in places that have a suitable terrain.

[CentralMass]

2. There are some gravity battery devices being developed.

https://archpaper.com/2018/11/energy-vault-gravity-powered-battery-35-ton-concrete-blocks/

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. More here ...

https://democraticunderground.com/1127126265

[CentralMass]

5. Thank you.

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. You're Welcome!

Innovation lives!

[NNadir]

3. Nothing, absolutely nothing, demonstrates more graphically what a grotesque failure...

...this particular form of the grotesquely failed so called "renewable energy" fantasy is, even among the otherwise grotesquely failed similar so called "renewable energy" schemes than a 700 "megawatt" power plant in 2019 being announced, breathlessly, as the "world's largest."

It's 2019. I've been listening to "world's largest" solar bullshit here for 17 years. Combined, on the whole damned planet, the solar and wind industry don't produce even 2% of the world's energy.

We are at 414 ppm of carbon dioxide. The planet's atmosphere is dying

These announcements, delusional and ineffective, are the practical equivalent of the belief in the Middle Ages that the answer to the bubonic plague was prayer.

It would have been better to clean up the streets to eliminate rats. An infinite series of "world's largest" solar facility horseshit has not worked, is not working and won't work.

The belief that it will is a Trumpian scale lie.