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sciam.com - 2/19/2009

Spain: How to Use Solar Energy at Night

— sciam.com — Scientific American: Near Granada, Spain, more than 28,000 metric tons of salt is now coursing through pipes at the Andasol 1 power plant. That salt will be used to solve a pressing if obvious problem for solar power: What do you do when the sun is ... (more) Spain: How to Use Solar Energy at Night

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supereco.com - 2/19/2009

Using solar energy at night

— supereco.com — Okay, Smartie, and you thought that solar energy was no good at night when the sun's not actually shining. Yeah, we didn't either. But savvy scientists are showing us wrong. Want to know how? Simple— it's salt . Salts, or a combination of sodium and potassium nitrate ... (more) Using solar energy at night

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Climate & environment - Feb 26
Energy Bulletin - — ... homepage Climate change lays waste to Spain's glaciers Giles Tremlett, Guardian Spain loses 90% of its glaciers thanks to global warming, threatening drought as rivers dry up The Pyrenees mountains have lost almost 90% of their glacier ice over the past century, according to scientists who warn that global warning means they will disappear completely within a few decades. While glaciers covered 3,300 hectares of land on the mountain range that divides Spain and France at the turn of the last century, only 390 hectares remain, according to Spain's environment ministry. The most ...

Climate change lays waste to Spain's glaciers
Peak Energy — The Guardian has a report on Spain's disappearing glaciers - Climate change lays waste to Spain's glaciers. The Pyrenees mountains have lost almost 90% of their glacier ice over the past century, according to scientists who warn that global warning means they will disappear completely within a few decades. While glaciers covered 3,300 hectares of land on the mountain range that divides Spain and France at the turn of the last century, only 390 hectares remain, according to Spain's environment ministry. The most southerly glaciers in Europe are losing ...

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Ecoearth.info Blog — ... suggesting that the threat posed by even small rises in global mean temperature is greater than previously thought. The writing also seems to be on the wall, or rather in the fast-vanishing ice, for Spain's glaciers . Desperate times might seem to call for desperate measures. And there is a tendency is to make a grab for the first and apparently the easiest solution to come to hand. In this context, magic-bullet technological fixes are enjoying a renaissance. From nuclear power to GM crops, once-unpopular technologies are struggling anew for public acceptance. Some ...