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> From: "Michael Salter" <msalter@precisionsportscar.com>
> Date: 2006/04/21 Fri PM 06:40:35 EDT
> To: "'Healey List'" <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: Oil etc.
>
> I know this is way off topic, but I have a question about alternative energy
> that I would like to have answered. Perhaps someone better read the area
can
> help.
> Last fall I traveled through the deserts of So Cal.
> I was astounded to think of all that solar energy going to waste.
> There are systems based upon solar concentrators. These are essentially a
> bunch of mirrors directing light to a point to produce high temperatures.
> One was built many years back in Spain which would melt steel!! With
> computer control of mirror angles this should be much more viable today.
> Could not this be done on a large scale with the heat produced being used
to
> drive large steam turbines? The energy would be created at the right time,
> when everyone in the SW has their air conditioner on..... What am I missing?
>
> Michael Salter
> www.precisionsportscar.com
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