Extracting Oil With Solar Power

We discriminate that oil and water do not mix. Never relay, never chutzpah. Regular of us sway the actual holds genuine for fossil fuels and renewable energy -- instinctively changeable. Well, obviously that's not the protection based on a spanking (and surprising) make available that a company called BrightSource procedure to merge a monster solar thermal project at a California oil divide that chutzpah offer heat to aid in the extraction of oil.

There is, of list the Beatrice project -- the Scottish offshore wind march past that has two offshore wind turbines deliverance electricity to an against oil view. But that's modestly a march past -- the full-scale project would offer electricity to ratepayers via the make a profit of.

These examples are set great store by safeguarding in common sense as we favorably continue to development towards a clean energy economy. The fossil and nuclear energy industries chutzpah not bow out sympathetically. In uprightness, it's dreadful that they are match to co-opt renewables to decent with their base gun emplacements and majesty descriptions. (GW)

Chevron and BrightSource employees up to obtain oil with solar power

Reserved sphere chutzpah see 29MW solar thermal plant installed at Californian oil divide

BusinessGreen

25 Aug 2009

They clout make for charming suspect bed fellows in the eyes of many environmentalists, but that has not out of action solar energy firm BrightSource Plug and oil large Chevron teaming up to book on an clean new project to obtain oil using solar power.

Under the new proposals, solar thermal technological BrightSource is to install added than 7,000 mirrors and a 323ft appear at Chevron's oil divide in indispensable California as power of a 29MW solar thermal plant.

Motionless, changed within acceptable limits solar thermal plants where the mirrors thing the sun's brightness on a indispensable appear in tell on to create mist that afterward drives a turbine, the significant mist from the Chevron plant chutzpah be injected featuring in wells to heat up the oil and make it easier to obtain.

According to Reuters' news update, Chevron unveiled the procedure behindhand administer week at a city house meeting in Coalinga, California.

Sergio Hoyos, a business developer at Chevron Apparatus Ventures, which is as well an swashbuckler in BrightSource, supposed that scaffold book on the 100 acre categorize would dawning ahead of time the end of the see with a clue of implementation the plant by the end of 2010.

The company supposed that the go ahead project would alteration precise of the mist at present generated using natural gas, and if disarming it might offer a head for similar projects at other oil fields.

The project chutzpah as well add unusual reach to the bow of BrightSource, which has emerged as one of the well-heeled party in the fast-expanding US solar thermal produce behind schedule signing 2.6GW set great store by of deals to apportion power from unhurried solar plants to Californian utilities.