Is it Time for a New Look at Solar Energy?
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Vol. 27 (8) , 32-37
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.1971.11455399
Abstract
The authors propose a solar power generating system which would produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the thermal conversion of sunshine to produce steam. They suggest the conversion can be done by the optical concentration of sunshine in ground collectors spread over desert regions. The collection of enough solar energy for a 1,000 megawatt generating system would require a solar power “farm” covering an area 3.8 kilometers on a side. Aden B. Meinel is director of the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, his wife, Marjorie Pettit Meinel, has collaborated with him in this study.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: