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Broken Promises?

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I wrote about the Chevron plant that converts solar energy to steam, so that they can recover oil using a smaller carbon footprint.  This Coalinga (CA) plant is pretty darned big.  It’s on some 65 acres and nearly 8000 mirrors that track the sun.  (They are called heliostats.)   And, it yields some 29 MW of steam.

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