A plan to build the world's biggest solar energy power station, covering about 250 hectares and capable of sustaining 130,000 households, has been unveiled in Portugal. The park would be visible from space, according to a spokesman for the owners of the site at an abandoned pyrite mine near the town of Beja, in the southern Alentejo region. With a potential output of 116 megawatts, the new station would be several times the size of what is now the world's largest solar energy plant. The output would be fed into the Portuguese electricity grid at a government-set price. >> Read More At the Guardian Unlimited
Interesting report. Too bad this isn't being built here. Of course, the morons in office wouldln't hear of a real world renewable energy power plant like this being built in the US.
a wonderful project that begs the question, with the amount of barren sun-drenched land we have here, why cant we do that? at less than half a billion dollars, it would be as nearly as cheap as any fossil fuel plant (though lower in output) but waaay cheaper than any nuclear plant. the US is blessed with the undeniable fact that we are land-rich with much of it that is useless for anything but ultra-secret military projects and fossil-digging. lets get some better use for this land
