PICTURES OF CSP PLANTS

Still pictures

Pictures of CSP plants, many with a high resolution, are available for no charge from the Sandia National Laboratories Concentrating Solar Power Photo & Document Database. On the page describing each picture, scroll down to the bottom for a link to the high-resolution version of the picture.

Wikipedia has some more pictures under the headings:

• Solar energy and
• Solar thermal energy

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory has a large selection of pictures in its Photographic Information eXchange. The low-resolution images (400 x 500 pixels at 400 dpi) can be downloaded free of charge. High resolution versions may be ordered at a charge of US$42.00 per image.

There are also some smallish still pictures at www.seao2.com/solarsphere/csp.htm.

A selection of high-resolution pictures are shown on the following pages:

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• Page 5

Film

• CSP features in James May's Big Ideas: Power to the People (BBC Two, 2008-10-12). The first part is between 8 and 14 minutes into the programme. The second part, about the synthesis of fuels, is from 50:30 minutes to 58 minutes in.
• Ausra. Film featuring David Mills, Vinod Khosla and others from Ausra Inc.
• Carrizo Energy solar farm, a 177MW project for PG&E, California, announced November 2007.
• Spain's new solar power tower (CNN.com, 2007-11-12).
• Aust technology to revolutionise clean electricity. There are links from this page to several short films about CSP and related topics. See also Solar power at large scale.
• Interview with Vinod Khosla on ABC TV (the second film on the list).
• Intense solar power. A short film about CSP and the DESERTEC concept by film maker Peter Walsh which features Katharine Hamnett (leading fashion designer and member of DESERTEC-UK), Dr Gerhard Knies (Coordinator of the main TREC group), and Tony Juniper (Director of FoE). The film was made for Al Gore's new cable TV channel and was screened over the weekend of the Live Earth concert in London (7th and 8th July, 2007).
• Just imagine. Short film from CNN in which Dr Gerhard Knies talks about the DESERTEC vision.
• The BBC produced a TV report about the PS10 power tower in Spain (BBC News, 2007-05-02). The film can be viewed via a link from this page.
• CBC News report in the Negev desert.
• There is some rather fuzzy footage of CSP plants on YouTube under the heading "Clean solar energy".
• There is a short film from WWF.
• And another short film about Nevada Solar One.
• A short time-lapse clip of dish/engine systems.
• Quicktime film from Stirling Energy Systems with music but no commentary.
• The New York Times has produced a short film about solar power including sequences about CSP plants (about half way through), July 2007.
• There are links to more online films in Objectif Terre.
• News-oriented videos and sound recordings may be found on our videos page.