Solar Thermal Energy Development: BrightSource Israel

BrightSource Energy and LUZ II have created the first Solar Power development Center in the world. Find out why they claim their solar technology is at the top of the market and will compete with fossil fuel.

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[Thor17]

Excellent. The system they describe for California that will supply 900 MW is great!

Many conventional nuclear reactors supply about 600-700 MW, take long to get approved and build, and 40 years later need costly upgrades. Then there is that thorny issue of radioactive waste, which though helped with reprocessing, is not completely solved.

It will only take 100 miles by 100 miles of these mirror installations in Arizona and Nevada to supply the entire US electrical grid.

[ISRAEL21cdotcom]

100 x 100 for the US. Amazing. Thanks for sharing these stats!

[AlyBlack]

Great stuff, from the fertile minds of Jewish scientists. Israel is a treasure for the entire planet.

[EternalJewishPeople]

when I see the comments of all those envy-haters I know Israel is on the right way :-)

[milandroidii]

@terrautopica Coal plant? Bad news, it's more pollutant than any other. Maybe some other valid considerations unknown...

[kauaikit]

This is great for Israel & CA too....as a CA resident, we will continue to partner & work with our Jewish breathen moving forward into the 21c, & Michigan can keep the muslims in the Detroit area! :-)

Allahu Akbar for the USA & Israel!

[Abraheem8k]

First how can you say it's youR country. you know the truth . and don't think I hate you or hate israel im not a raceist . anything that is good can never be bad (in the video)

And Hamas is rising because of you isn't that so clear

[notverysuperdean]

g-d i love my country!!~no pun intended.

if were such a treasure y does everyone treat us like garbage. and why does everyone frown down at us wen we do things like attack Hamas buildings wen trying to save our own ass

[Spastb00n]

Actually, if this is working like any other concept (and there is no reason that it does not) then it consumes no water at all, it is a completely enclosed cycle, and after running thropught the turbine, the water condenses, and is heated up again.

[Spastb00n]

This may be true, if the entire energy, required by the US were to be produced as electrical energy in the deserts.

As a matter of fact, evolving towards a solar-energy based economy, would also involve installing solar thermal hot-water generators on private houses and replacing a number of inductive melting furnances with solar-ovens.

All these developments will lead to a lot less required space for this kind of powerplands to replace the conventional energy by solar energy.

[Spastb00n]

Well, could you provide any information, on how this system consumes more water than any other power-plant-system on earth?

Every major concept, including fossil-fuel and nuclear powerplants use water to create steam, in order to move a turbine, and thus convert the thermal energy to electrical energy, which is exactly what is happening here.

[brtbendele]

The only, perhapse major, issue I can see with this is the sheer amount of water that it consumes, and here it is happening in the middle of the Negev desert where water is already scarce. Surely that water is not all collected back from steam at the end of the process... Any insight into this?