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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Heat boils water to make steam to generate electricity. Using the sun to do this makes sense. Using nuclear reaction to do this - does not make sense.
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Concentrated solar installation is running at $9/ Watt in the USA. Nameplate. The best month Crescent Dunes could offer (after over a year of failure and shut downs due to salt leaks) was 33, 387 MWh. 46MW average on it's best month. 42% capacity factor. On it's best month. $ 21.40 / Watt actual cap cost. Based on it's best month. Sited on 1,670 acres.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresce...Energy_Project
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Tracking mirror based concentrated solar is extremely expensive. But it does at least store 10 hours of output theoretically.
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Ivanpah was $2.2 Billion and has been much more reliable averaging 71MW over 4 years. $31/ Watt based on the actual output. And 3,500 acres.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpa...Power_Facility
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Green magazines will never tell you any of this. Good thing we have Wikipedia.