Pumping Oil with Sunshine [Slide Show]
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 07:30
in Earth & Climate
How do you make mirror-concentrated sunlight cheaper than burning natural gas? Put it in a greenhouse, argues new solar start-up GlassPoint, which unveiled its first such solar hot water greenhouse on February 24--in a dusty, old oil field in California's Central Valley. Why? Because cheap steam means more oil. [More]