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Offers insight into the clean tech industry, focusing on sino-european relations.

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Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy Development in China and India

April 27, 2011 by Chunfeng

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Solar thermal technologies harness the sun’s radiation to boil special fluids whose steam runs a turbine that generates electricity. CST power production is continuous and can be dispatched, easing the intermittence problem associated with wind or solar photovoltaic power generation. PV facilities can convert roughly 10-15 percent Sunlight into grid quality electricity. In comparison, CSP plants, with thermal storage, can harness up to 60-70 percent of the sun’s energy into usable heat for power generation.

CSP technology showed especially strong growth in Spain and the United States since 2006. An installed capacity is expected to 4.5GW by 2010 and the capacity will exceed 20GW worldwide by 2020. (Solar Millennium AG , 2010)

Development in China

Compared to PV power generation, CST development has been rather limited. By 2008, large-scale grid-connect solar power capacity comes almost all from photovoltaic installations.

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Discussions and scientific discourse on topics related to climate change, global warming and environmental issues.

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Why Cosmic Rays do not directly affect climate

March 3, 2010 by jason

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There are many reasons for the climate to change, but increases in the energy of cosmic rays warming up the atmosphere is not one of them. Yet for some reason, every debate on climate change at some stage gets onto the topic of cosmic rays and their role in global warming. I think it is important to address this because many people dismiss a lot of scientific evidence for other causes of global warming (such as changes in ice coverage or greenhouse gas concentrations) by simply attributing it to some spike in cosmic rays that may or may not have occurred at the same time. This article looks at the effects of cosmic rays directly on climate, not other secondary effects. For a further look into this topic please read my article on Cosmic Ray Levels and their effect on climate through cloud formation.

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