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World’s Largest Solar Power Station

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SYDNEY – Australia plans to build the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts in a A$1.4 billion (US$1.05 billion) investment … The plant would have three times the generating capacity of the current biggest solar-powered electricity plant, which is in California.   Read more here.

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  1. Larry says

    I don’t know about Australian Greens, but their Merkin counterparts can be real NIMBYs about everything, including solar-thermal facilities. I have a proposal for selling the idea to those Greens who have reservations about the environmental impacts of such large projects.

    Putting things into perspective: Even if the 21 million Aussies got ALL of their electric power from solar-thermal, feral cats would continue to be a bigger environmental threat to the small lizards, small mammals, and birds in certain parts of the country.

    Some specifics. First, site all of the solar-thermal facilities in cat-infested parts of the Outback.

    Second: For each site, hire a Green as a resident environmental offset. More specifically, the job would be to shoot every cat that comes near the property with .22 hollowpoint rounds, gut the cats, skin the carcasses, and put the meat into a large community freezer. Some Aborigines consider cat to be a delicacy. The free food could be plus for community relations, assuming that there is a community to begin with.

    More importantly, the facilities would be win-wins for renewable energy, for native fauna, for Australia’s international environmental image, and for giving rural-life experience to Greens from urban areas.

  2. Louis Hissink says

    Construct a solar plant to create what – electricity.

    But the plasma model operates on the assumtion that the Earth receives and sends out electric currents to the plasma of space, whether via the Sun or the rest of the solar system.

    There exists a view that Nicola Tesla worked out how to tap this source of energy, and let’s not wander into conspiracies, but the potential of an almost limitless supply of electrical energy of a power density greater than that obtained by shining sunlight onto silicon chips is worth investigating.