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unusual facts about solar thermal



Andasol Solar Power Station

The Andasol solar power station is Europe's first commercial parabolic trough solar thermal power plant, located near Guadix in Andalusia, Spain.

Mojave Solar Park

The Mojave Solar Park was a solar thermal power facility contracted to be constructed in the Mojave Desert in California.


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Areva Solar

Areva Solar is conducting a 44-MW solar thermal addition with CS Energy to the existing 750-MW Kogan Creek Power Station in Queensland, Australia.

Frank Shuman

Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt (1912-1913).

Monopropellant rocket

A concept to provide low Earth orbit (LEO) propellant depots that could be used as way-stations for other spacecraft to stop and refuel on the way to beyond-LEO missions has proposed that waste gaseous hydrogen—an inevitable byproduct of long-term liquid hydrogen storage in the radiative heat environment of space—would be usable as a monopropellant in a solar-thermal propulsion system.

Resol

RESOL, a German solar thermal technology company based in Hattingen

SolarFest

In the 1830s, the British astronomer John Herschel used a solar thermal collector box (a device that absorbs sunlight to collect heat) to cook food during an expedition to Africa.