Re:World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power ...
by fludlight on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @12:50PM
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Three reasons why PV works better for rooftop:
1.) Thermal only works on a massive scale. You can't fit 1000 large mirrors, a tower, a huge turbine, and the requisite plumbing on a commercial rooftop.
2.) Even if you could, the city wouldn't let you because the mirrors would distract aviation and anger neighbors.
3.) Technological advances and a capacity glut in PV manufacturing brought the price of panels down so far that it doesn't make economic sense to build thermal anymore.
1.) Thermal only works on a massive scale. You can't fit 1000 large mirrors, a tower, a huge turbine, and the requisite plumbing on a commercial rooftop.
2.) Even if you could, the city wouldn't let you because the mirrors would distract aviation and anger neighbors.
3.) Technological advances and a capacity glut in PV manufacturing brought the price of panels down so far that it doesn't make economic sense to build thermal anymore.