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Spain is Doing Sassy Things

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Anytime Spain comes up in conversation or on the news, I pay special attention because that's where John grew from a shy infant into a not-shy man.  A couple of articles have come across my computer screen that I think are worthy to point out.  See, the Spain I knew loved to lag behind the rest of the world, almost proudly sticking to its stop-the-country-no-matter-what siesta routine.  So, when I see things like this, I get very proud of my country.  It's all grows up!

First, an article from BBC News on May 2nd.  Spain has redefined the potential of solar power near Seville.   This is a "solar tower" (it doesn't have a proper name yet):

solarpowertower.jpgAs you can see, this leaves a simple solar panel in the dust.   The technique is to point 600 giant mirrors (you can compare to the SUV in the photo above to get scale) at a tower that's 40 stories tall.  All that light (and it's an insane amount of light) turns water to steam which powers turbines and makes energy.  Steam power?  How retro!  How much power can this steam produce?  How about 11 Megawatts?  How about 6,000 homes?

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