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Solar power should replace wind energy, says Jack Steinberger
Europe should scrap its support for wind energy as soon as possible to focus on far more efficient emerging forms of clean power generation including solar thermal energy, the scientist Professor Jack Steinberger said yesterday. He said technologies such as solar thermal power — for which parabolic mirrors reflect the Sun’s rays to generate heat and electricity — represent a more promising way of supplanting fossil fuels.
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http://www.the-times.co.uk
Keywords: Solar
Subjects: Electricity generation, Solar energy, Solar thermal, Combined heat and power generation, Heat generation, Heat distribution, Electricity, Heat, Wind power, Photovoltaics
