Using todays technology Molten Salt Solar could power every home in America, unfortunately it is not attracting the 1% who can affford to invest and the U.S. Department of Energy has only given this technology less than $1Billion in loan guarantees while the profitable fossil fuel industries enjoy more than $12 Billion in government subsidies.
Here is the math based on current Molten Solar Technology which in it's infancy (though it was invented 30 years ago in the 1980's) is technologically speaking, as new as the hybrid technology of a WWII submarine as compared to a the auto industries "meager" 2013 Hybrid offerings:
A molten salt solar electricity generating power plant covers approximately 4 square miles with no green house emmissions and no toxic waste. Each plant of this size can power 25,000 homes.
The two U.S. States with the most sunshine are Arizona and New Mexico. They have a combined square footage of 235,054 square miles, that is enough room to build 58,763 molten salt solar plants. This is enough power for 1.469 Billion homes. There are 313 million people in the U.S. assuming 4 persons per household this covers vurtually everyone by more than double the power they need. So Renewables Are Possible.
Compare this to Gas Fracking and gas fracking accidents in the U.S. on the map below.
The superconducting properties of a modern electricty grid connecting molten solar to photo voltaic solar, and wind energy is certainly preferable to oil and gas wells, pipelines, coal minesd and open million gallon slurry ponds, spills, fires, explosions, air and water pollution and the unstabilities of a militarily enforced global fossil fuel economy.
America can do this on her own even if other countries don't, but the truth is that other countries are already ahead of America in doing just this. Germany is looking at 100% Green Energy in ten years, the world's first molten solar is a joint venture between the King of Spain and the King of the United Arab Emerites, and Chinese government subsidizes their own green energy program while the U.S. does not.
Meanwhile ... the U.S. accuses China for our own failure of Solyndra, lies to the american people about the dangers of natural gas, force "democracy" at gun point in oil rich nations with the stipulation that american corporations do business with them to be written into their laws, and allow Beacon Energy's proprietary wind and solar advanced energy storage flywheel technology to be bankrupted and absorbed by a fossil fuel corporation, the science doomed to be shelved forever like GM's 1989 electric car, while Toyota and Nissan market the worlds only two true electric cars. Only one U.S. company is building an electric truck and it is not a major automaker.
Please watch these videos and learn more about molten salt solar.
Here is the math based on current Molten Solar Technology which in it's infancy (though it was invented 30 years ago in the 1980's) is technologically speaking, as new as the hybrid technology of a WWII submarine as compared to a the auto industries "meager" 2013 Hybrid offerings:
A molten salt solar electricity generating power plant covers approximately 4 square miles with no green house emmissions and no toxic waste. Each plant of this size can power 25,000 homes.
The two U.S. States with the most sunshine are Arizona and New Mexico. They have a combined square footage of 235,054 square miles, that is enough room to build 58,763 molten salt solar plants. This is enough power for 1.469 Billion homes. There are 313 million people in the U.S. assuming 4 persons per household this covers vurtually everyone by more than double the power they need. So Renewables Are Possible.
Compare this to Gas Fracking and gas fracking accidents in the U.S. on the map below.
The superconducting properties of a modern electricty grid connecting molten solar to photo voltaic solar, and wind energy is certainly preferable to oil and gas wells, pipelines, coal minesd and open million gallon slurry ponds, spills, fires, explosions, air and water pollution and the unstabilities of a militarily enforced global fossil fuel economy.
America can do this on her own even if other countries don't, but the truth is that other countries are already ahead of America in doing just this. Germany is looking at 100% Green Energy in ten years, the world's first molten solar is a joint venture between the King of Spain and the King of the United Arab Emerites, and Chinese government subsidizes their own green energy program while the U.S. does not.
Meanwhile ... the U.S. accuses China for our own failure of Solyndra, lies to the american people about the dangers of natural gas, force "democracy" at gun point in oil rich nations with the stipulation that american corporations do business with them to be written into their laws, and allow Beacon Energy's proprietary wind and solar advanced energy storage flywheel technology to be bankrupted and absorbed by a fossil fuel corporation, the science doomed to be shelved forever like GM's 1989 electric car, while Toyota and Nissan market the worlds only two true electric cars. Only one U.S. company is building an electric truck and it is not a major automaker.
Please watch these videos and learn more about molten salt solar.
How Your Home Will Be Powered
By Molten Salt
Concentrated solar power isn’t what you think of when you think of solar power, but it might be the future of how we get energy from the sun. Get excited: It works with a giant field of mirrors and molten salt.
When you think of solar power, you probably think of a few desultory panels perched on the roof of a well-meaning neighbor, generating enough power to knock a few dollars off their electric bill every month. That’s probably not so charitable of you: Residential solar panels are often a good and cost-effective way to reduce your power bill and carbon footprint.
However, for solar to be a major part of the energy mix in America, it’s not going to be because of panels on people’s roofs. Instead, it’s going to be with huge solar installations out in the middle of the desert that can store power at the times when the sun isn’t out.
Those can be a little hard to wrap your head around, conceptually--there aren’t even solar panels involved. But this video from Solar Reserve, a concentrated solar power company, is a great primer about how this power of the future works. It’s simple, really: Thousands of mirrors focus the sun’s light into a giant tower, where it heats salt until it melts (the amount of mirrored panels may be drastically reduced due to some inspiration from sunflowers). That molten salt is then used to heat up water and make steam to spin a turbine. Because salt maintains temperature very well, the molten salt can be used even after dark to create power.
It’s solar power, but not the way you think of it. But it is one of the ways to make solar energy most effective, so much so that the DOE has helped give Solar Reserve’s installation a $737 million loan guarantee.
However, for solar to be a major part of the energy mix in America, it’s not going to be because of panels on people’s roofs. Instead, it’s going to be with huge solar installations out in the middle of the desert that can store power at the times when the sun isn’t out.
Those can be a little hard to wrap your head around, conceptually--there aren’t even solar panels involved. But this video from Solar Reserve, a concentrated solar power company, is a great primer about how this power of the future works. It’s simple, really: Thousands of mirrors focus the sun’s light into a giant tower, where it heats salt until it melts (the amount of mirrored panels may be drastically reduced due to some inspiration from sunflowers). That molten salt is then used to heat up water and make steam to spin a turbine. Because salt maintains temperature very well, the molten salt can be used even after dark to create power.
It’s solar power, but not the way you think of it. But it is one of the ways to make solar energy most effective, so much so that the DOE has helped give Solar Reserve’s installation a $737 million loan guarantee.
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