James May (Top gear) visits solar thermal plant in Spain

James may visits the concentrated solar thermal tower plant in Seville, Spain. This plant produces 10MW of electricity. Since this was filmed larger solar tower plants have been built in Spain and have been combined with molten salt storage to create baseload solar power. This technology can replace coal, gas and nuclear with this zero emission renewable energy power in places like Africa, Australia and parts of America that receive good solar radiation

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Science & Technology

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• Solar Thermal
• The Stig
• Baseload
• Renewables
• James May
• Zero Emissions

[ademite]

6000 homes? i could have swore the plant powered the whole city of sevilla.....

[anarchosolar]

@StarsMarsRadio This report is old it has been expanded.

[opinioncritica5]

spain "unfinished" ? you must be joking

[ddnguyen278]

@StarsMarsRadio They scale up, the US is building the same thing in California which is going to be 1000MW.. using the solar concept too, that will provide power for more than half million homes.. It's quite competitive with coal / oil when u factor in the fuel uncertainty and environmental costs..

[toskien]

thought provoking

[TheJimbob83]

When you think of all the complexities involved in all the other forms of eletricy production it's quite simple. theres no more fuel to source, extract, deliver, pay for. plus they didnt mention that these plants aren't like normal solar panels that cant provide power once the sun goes down. they store the heat in the tower and it can last up to 15 hours. This tech needs to used here in Australia. So much sun on offer. Australia is the largest exporter of coal. shame shame shame.

[StarsMarsRadio]

6,000 homes isn't many for all of that.