RAK to test floating solar island

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/509040-rak-to-test-floating-solar-island

RAK to test floating solar island

by Lynne Roberts and Wam on Thursday, 24 January 2008

Floating islands off the UAE coast could convert solar energy into electricity or hydrogen on a massive scale, according to the head of project under development in Ras Al Khaimah.

The emirate has pledged $5 million to build a prototype for the huge solar panel-covered structures which could transform the development and utilisation of solar energy, said Dr Thomas Hinderling, CEO of the Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM).

The project will “gather a great deal of experience in a technology that is of enormous importance for the future energy supply of our planet” Hinderling said.

With a 100 metre diameter, the project is a tenth of the size of the final product. It will include a thermal energy reservoir, and will be able to supply energy for 24 hours a day. Peak output will be one megawatt, with medium output estimated at 250KW.

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[Demeter]

1. What? The Sand is Over=Populated?

Why in hell put your power source in the oceans at the mercy of the US navy and air force?

On land, if they attack, it's an act of war, no questions asked.

[Vincardog]

2. Do you thing that US is going to attack The UAE? You so funny

[Demeter]

3. Stranger Things Have Happened

and Israel has attacked the US naval vessels, so they're crazy, too

[Vincardog]

5. Where will Haliburton go with their corporate headquarters?

[Demeter]

6. To Hades

[skids]

4. maybe they will be mobile...

Weather going to be cloudy up north next week? Move it down to the south mooring and plug it in.