I like that idea. 10 megawatts still is not huge power but it is getting serious.
How big is the power plant? About 400 yards. In one square mile there could be about 16 power plants producing 160 megawatts of electricity. 10 miles X 10 miles in the desert could produce energy equivalent to 40 nuclear power plants. And there are plenty of deserts
One concern about solar power of this nature is that it currently takes some considerable amount of land.
It takes considerable amount of land in the desert. Also drilling for oil also takes considerable amount of land. And the climate change, raise of ocean level would eat up more land than the land taken by the Solar Two. The land taken by the raise of ocean is at the shore where people have their houses and where hotels are, destroying property and jobs. One could also bring the insulation up to an R-31 rating and apply windows with spectrally selective glass that lets visible light through but keeps the solar heat gain out which will lower the heat traveling through the windows. A 5kW roof integrated photovoltaic system was installed on the south side of the roof. This will be a source of power throughout the year. There you have a zero energy house that could be applied in the south
Zero Energy Building
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Nike:
Just do it