High Power Solar Thermal Power Plants

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High Power Solar Thermal Power Plants

• Brandon Short and Raul Doyle

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Agenda
1. Main Goal
2. How it makes a difference
3.How it works
4. Technological hindrances
5. Political/Economic hindrances
6. Negative environmental impact
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Main Goal of Solar Thermal energy
The hopes for solar thermal energy is to provide
a energy efficient, cleaner, and safer
environment. With more research, the results of
using solar thermal energy will undoubtedly make
the world a cleaner and safer place.
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Potential in making a difference
The overall potential that Solar Thermal energy
is huge due to the massive amount of sunlight the
earth receives everyday. Despite the fact that it
does not produce as much energy as fossil fuels,
the Earth is most likely never going to run out
of sunlight. It could make a huge difference in
the world if enough investment of its
technologies were done
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H O W I T W O R K S
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Technological Difficulties

• Some of the technological problems that would
  disrupt the implementation of Solar Thermal power
  are the ability of certain liquids to accommodate
  thermal storage.
• Water can cause corrosion in the system.
• Molten salts and oils break down at high
  temperatures.
• Until a better liquid is found it will be limited
  by those problems.

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Political Difficulties

• The fact that most of the energy market is
  controlled by large international corporations
  that rely heavily on fossil fuels, they would
  snuff out any competition just by buying them and
  removing the technology. Also these new
  technologies are expensive and less common than
  fossil fuel power.
• Politically the new technology has a small
  chance to survive as well because the large
  companies may lobby to politicians to kill any
  bills that would help this new technology

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Negative Environmental Impact
For the most part, solar thermal energy is a very
efficient source of energy and does not consist
of a high negative environmental impact. The one
negative impact that was found was how much land
solar panels can take up especially if you want
to use solar energy to its fullest potential.
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Bibliography
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