Solar Power Helps Squeeze Last Drops from Old Oil Wells
Last month, the oil and solar industry joined hands in an oil field about a century off its prime that Chevron owns in Coalinga, Calif., where steam is required to sufficiently thin what oil remains so it can be extracted. The oil company signed a deal with Bright Source Energy to build a demonstration project: Thousands of flat mirrors will reflect concentrated sunlight on a boiler atop a tower, superheating the water to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit to ... Full Story »
Posted by W. MacKenzie
