{"id":680279,"date":"2010-03-02T17:35:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6917"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:07:26","slug":"google-is-serious-about-developing-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680279","title":{"rendered":"Google is serious about developing solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1309\/google-develops-new-solar-thermal-mirror-prototype.html\" >Very serious<\/a>. \u00a0A solar thermal plant pumping out\u00a0electricity\u00a0at 5 cents\/kWh (or less!?!) would be pretty amazing. This advance in efficiency is coming through a redesign of the mirrors with new material on both the reflective surface and the substrate.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Google announced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/_ylt=ArpCmowlzerF.cIrWLPB7BSIV8cX\/SIG=12n59o54r\/**http%3A\/\/ecogeek.org\/solar-power\/2949-google-developing-own-solar-thermal-technology\">last year<\/a> that they were working on new technology that would make solar thermal energy cheaper than coal.\u00a0 Just a few months later, they have a prototype and expect a product to be ready in as little as a year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The prototype is being internally tested before more rigorous external testing, but two solar companies, BrightSource and eSolar, are already interested in the technology.\u00a0 Google is a major investor in both companies and has said if the prototype works, the companies would use the technology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6917\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very serious. \u00a0A solar thermal plant pumping out\u00a0electricity\u00a0at 5 cents\/kWh (or less!?!) would be pretty amazing. This advance in efficiency is coming through a redesign of the mirrors with new material on both the reflective surface and the substrate. From the link: Google announced\u00a0last year that they were working on new technology that would make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QYf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781782,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680279\/revisions\/781782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}