[I got the rope]

Dr. Motl is awesome!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Wow. What a great breakthrough.

I hope the Islamofascists that run that country through fear approve of them using it.

[Bean Counter]

I recall reading about a Spanish solar plant that was storing extra heat from their grid in a salt mass, and using the stored heat to continue steam generation for the turbines will after the sun set.

[Kirkwood]

battery banks

[Rembrandt]

This must be an example of why Spain’s economy is doing so great! Are they re-deploying their state of the art techniques to the other members of the EuroZone yet? Perhaps to Portugal, to Italy and to the other PIIGS?

[Boogieman]

A devious mind would suggest using the Cloward-Piven strategy here. Organize local people to generate as much fake “solar” power as possible, in order to make the subsidy scheme completely untenable and force the Government to abandon it.

[steelyourfaith]

Luboš Motl: CO2 vs temperature: ice core correlation & lag

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

 

[Rocky]

Dr Ota Šik of Pilsen, found a mine and a coal power plant in the city of Ostrava such that the plant burned all the coal from the mine, and the mine consumed all the electricity produced by the power plant.

Awesome. Socialism at its very best.

[Clive]

The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright--
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done--
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"

From "The Walrus and The Carpenter"
in "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There"
By Lewis Carroll

[J Aguilar]

Spain, the country where the sun always shines. And always means that: always!

Some say they were not using diesel engines, but simply buying electricity at market price from a neighbouring point, and injecting it back to the grid at the subsidized price, four times greater.

[Oztrich Boy]

Bloomberg and various German media (EN) and Spanish media (EN) have revealed that Spain is able to produce solar energy at night, too.

OK whjat happened may have been a scam, but for solar power to work in needs to be from something that gathers energy during the day and released over 24 hours

Solar Updraft Tower

Other advantages:
1. Simple. It just sits there and generates power (The idea of millions of mirrors of solar panels being steered by millions of control systems and millions of motors to track the sun has always seemmed coocoo bananas to me)

2. For this to work they have to be big. No, I mean really BIG

This will be a) cool, and b) annoy the ecomentalists