Re: Huge solar power station planned for California, using Stirling engine.

Guy Gordon <gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>http://www.stirlingenergy.com/news.asp?Type=stirling
>>Will this work? Still waiting for the car with Stirling engine...
>>
<snip>
> First, the mirrors need to track the sun.
> This doesn't take a lot of power, except at startup.
> At some point, every single mirror (12,000 in the above article)
> needs to move from where it pointed yesterday evening
> to where it should point this morning. If you do that at night,
> you can't use your own power. If you try to do it in the morning you have a
> huge transient load. If you try to spread it out, you might never get it done.

Small thermal storage, which you'd probably want anyway.

You simply use that power.
.

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