Photo: Public domain, Sandia Labs

The Search Giant is Working on Cheaper Mirrors
Solar thermal power has a bright future (ha!), but at the moment the biggest hurdle in the way of wider adoption is capital cost. All those mirrors cost a lot of money and add up to a significant portion of the total cost of a solar thermal power plant. Thats why Google’s energy division has been working on making cheaper mirrors. Bill Weihl, the company’s green energy czar, claims that their latest prototype could cut by …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Acme’s power plants will use the same technology as shown here in this photo from eSolar. Acme owns a 5% stake in the California-based company.

Acme Group has announced that it’s on track to get the first half of it’s first 10 MW solar thermal power plant online at the beginning of 2010, Cleantech reports. The plant uses the same technology as in eSolar‘s Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Army.mil via flickr

Last October, the US Army announced that it would be developing a 500 MW solar thermal power plant at Fort Irwin, California. At the time details as to who would be developing the project and when it might come online were lacking, but we now have more details on that (via Greent…Read the full story on TreeHugger