There are news updates about solar energy from all over the world. It seems that the international goal regarding renewable energy relates to solar energy more than any other sustainable clean energy that is being researched. For instance, in Spain you can find the massive Gemasolar Plant that uses a circular format of panels that are mirrored to create electricity at night after the sun goes down. The researchers that developed Gemasolar arranged the mirrored panels in a circular pattern for a reason. It is to take the radiation or radiant light from the sun and aim it onto a receiver that is in the center of the panels. Heat is created to warm the salt tanks that generate steam. The steam is responsible for turning the turbines which create the energy which can be stored for at least fifteen hours during the night or for days without sunlight.
The location of Gemasolar is in the outskirts of Seville. The climate is usually sunny and at this time the energy produced by this plant is powering over 25,000 homes. Climates such as found in California and other western states in the U.S. would offer great locales for this type of solar energy plant. California is the leading state in the numbers of solar arrays functioning in both industry and private homes and goals have been set to increase the use of electricity from solar energy greatly in the next twenty years.
There are critics of large solar arrays. Some people feel that it ruins that rural landscape and interferes with the habitats of wildlife. The transport of the electricity from rural areas to urban areas where there are larger populations may include the building of unsightly power lines that would be built above the ground. However, there are also critics of transporting electricity in structures below the ground. The positive news updates about solar energy is that compared to other forms of energy that require mining, oil drilling, and hydraulic fracturing, there is no carbon waste connected to solar energy other than what it takes to manufacture the panels. There is no risk to underground sources of water from solar arrays and there are no moving parts such as the blades of wind turbines that kill birds when they fly into them.
The good news updates about solar energy today is that scientists and engineers all over the world are researching practical, clean, and efficient ways of delivering electricity from solar power. The progress regarding solar technology will continue so that the world can use clean and sustainable energy from the sun.
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