Here is a country that knows how to prepare for a post-petroleum world.

[TalkingDog]

World’s largest Solar Power Plant with 258,000 mirrors opens in Abu Dhabi

http://worldtruth.tv/who-needs-oil-worlds-largest-solar-power-plant-with-258000-mirrors-opens-in-abu-dhabi/


The 100-megawatt solar-thermal project in Abu Dhabi will power thousands of homes in the country and, it is hoped, displace approximately 175,000 tons of CO2 per year.

The $600million (£398million) project dubbed Shams 1 took three years to build.

Incorporating the latest in parabolic trough technology, the plant features more than 258,000 mirrors mounted on 768 tracking parabolic trough collectors, covering an area of 2.5 sq/km, or 285 football fields.

[gcomeau]

1. It helps...

...to be in a location where you average 3600 hours of direct unimpeded sunlight a year.

[kestrel91316]

2. Germany is doing very well with solar and it's cloudy most of the time there.

Big Oil and Big Nuke and Big Coal want you to think that solar power requires full sun all day. They are lying.