The sun provides to each square meter of the Earth 1350 watts of solar energy. Solar power plants are very efficients in sunny countries, like Spain.
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Dr. D. Yogi Goswami is the John and Naida Ramil Professor at University of South Florida. He and his team at the College of Engineering are building a solar power plant at the Tampa campus of USF; their aim is to find a way to make solar energy available 24 hours a day at affordable prices. The on campus solar power plant is funded with a grant from the State of Florida through the Florida Energy Systems Consortium. Included in this project is a thermal storage system being developed with $ 3.9 million grant from the US Department of Energy. Winner of more than 50 international awards and certificates, Dr. Goswami is the co-director of USF’s Clean Energy Research Center. He has 14 patents with 6 more pending. He has written 16 books and published more than 200 scientific articles. Dr. Goswami also serves as Editor in Chief of the Solar Energy Journal. Dr. Goswami’s research interests include Novel Thermodynamic Cycle for Combined Power and Cooling Antenna Solar Energy to Electricity Conversion Hybrid Solar Liquid and Solid Desiccant Air Conditioning Solar Photocatalytic Disinfection of Indoor Air Thermochemical Hydrogen Production Biomass Hydrogen Production PEM Fuel Cells.
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rickcain2320 says:
September 9, 2011 at 1:14 am (UTC 0)
Solar will never be accepted by the public. Its too clean, its too safe, and the technology is too simple. We only love dangerous power generation technologies that give our babies two heads.
Uneakdawg says:
September 9, 2011 at 1:29 am (UTC 0)
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nerblebun says:
September 9, 2011 at 2:29 am (UTC 0)
If the budget for the Military,DEA,(which is a dismal failure)and Homeland Security were cut by only 10%…the U.S. would be completely independant of foreign oil.Couple that with our almost constant wind turbin capabilities and we’d stop the Arabs nd Big Oil from extorting billions from the taxpayers.Problem is….Congress is bought and paid for by the Big Oil Companies ,If Americans voted for non-corupt congress instead of American Idol….Maybe we could solve this huge problem.
SpanishInAustralia says:
September 9, 2011 at 3:27 am (UTC 0)
@TheWarfare07 yes
MarsOntheRocks says:
September 9, 2011 at 4:17 am (UTC 0)
@TheWarfare07 Well, if being fried applies to your death question, then yes… It’s some thousand degrees celcius up there…google it.
SaeedOshee says:
September 9, 2011 at 5:12 am (UTC 0)
@TheWarfare07 Duh!
TheWarfare07 says:
September 9, 2011 at 6:02 am (UTC 0)
Can u die if u stand on the top of the tower in front of the mirrors?