In an article in Green Options, Joshua S Hill posted an interesting blog about alternative energy opportunities. His post, US Power Requirements Solved in 92 Square Miles outlines a neat idea to generate power, AC power, using solar energy to heat tubes of liquid water that will boil and create steam to run nearby turbine generators. The spokesman for the project, Ausra David Mills said at the International Solar Energy Society conference that he even had a solution for night-time solar generation. His proposal suggests that enough heat can be stored in the tubes to continue to create steam over night until morning returns again.
This engineer is excited, if a little skeptical about the night-time generation. But they are going to build a test model so I really hope that we will see an alternative to our fossil fuel-dependent energy model in the United States.
Check out the write up if you haven’t already.
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