Solar Thermal Power

John O'Donnell, energy and climate entrepreneur, discusses solar thermal power. The Energy Seminar meets weekly during the academic year. For a list of upcoming talks, visit the events page at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.

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[thegreeensky]

great presentation.. well done!

[agapitoflores001]

This is a very good source of energy. It is very abundant. Bravo!

[peterszilagyi6]

This is great and makes excellent points. There are a couple of counterpoints that are rarely addressed, though. One of my pet peeves is land area.

There's a big difference between farming land area and covering it with reflectors. When I've calculated the amount of material we'd have to mine to cover 0.01% of the earth with even impossibly thin reflectors, it's a big problem. Wind has a similar problem on a global scale. We should not sweep these problems under the rug re. global scale.

[WarblesOnALot]

@StanfordUniversity G'day... Um, I've made & uploaded a clip on the construction of the 2nd Prototype SunFoil, which y' may like....? It otherwise appears in the 'Solar Thermal Ramjet' clip, that this lecture links into... Your comments would also be appreciated at 'boomerang aerophisics', & 'SunFoil Science'....; should y' feel so curious...

Thanks.

Ciao !

[sidj86]

Great presebtation. Are the slides available somewhere?

[WarblesOnALot]

@StanfordUniversity G'day... Sorry I omitted your acc.name from previous post. New to this game... Um, it took yt's search engine 36Hrs to swallow it's disbelief sufficiently to work out the links; but for a real giggle, search "solar thermal ramjet" & be amazed at where NASA is ranked. Last time they took backseat to a Hillbilly was when Chuck Yeager was still flying Rocketplanes, at Muroc Dry Lake (aka Edwards AFB) ! Please, search 'sunfoil' & try to Debunk; it's peer-review !

[WarblesOnALot]

Heads Up...!

Search 'sunfoil' and scroll to the clip called "SunFoil Thermodynamics, Aerodynamics, & Solar-Thermal Ramjet-Effect". The Australian Gov'ts Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation's evaluation is in the "SunFoil Short-Talk (May 2011)" clip... This is not a joke. Please enjoy the bread-on-the-waters excercise.

[merakhagen]

43:09, there should be another arrow pointing from Mongolia directly eastward. From Arizona, northwest-ward.

[VBioreactorBydlo]

Excellent presentation! I hope humanity comes to realization of some ideas and solar energy.

[jcanivan]

Great presentation.

Looks like you're covering all the bases concerned with the problems of fossil fuel and the benifits of solar thermal.