{"id":5573,"date":"2011-04-12T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2011-04-12T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T09:04:37","slug":"google-invests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/04\/12\/google-invests\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Invests in World\u2019s Largest Solar Power Tower Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/04\/12\/ivanpah-google-solar-energy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5576\" title=\"110412_google\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/110412_google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Google<\/a> has just sealed a deal to invest $168 million in a Mojave Desert solar <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/topics\/energy\/\">energy<\/a> plant. The investment is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brightsourceenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BrightSource Energy<\/a>, a company that developes and operates large-scale solar power plants, specifically to fund its <a href=\"http:\/\/ivanpahsolar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ivanpah<\/a> project. Ivanpah  is a solar electric generating system that uses solar thermal  technology  and \u201can environmentally responsible design,\u201d according to  the project\u2019s website, to deliver reliable, clean and low-cost power to  Californians. The plant will generate energy with a technology  called power towers. Mirrors, called heliostats, are arranged in an  array and aim the sun\u2019s rays at a receiver atop a tower. The receiver  generates steam; the steam causes a turbine to rotate; the rotation  causes a generator to generate electricity. Because such large  quantities of solar energy are being directed to such a small area, the  power towers are very efficient. The power tower at Ivanpah will  be around 450 feet tall. The plant will use 173,000 heliostats, and each  heliostat will have two mirrors, making Ivanpah the largest project of  its kind. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/04\/12\/ivanpah-google-solar-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: Google | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/04\/12\/ivanpah-google-solar-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just sealed a deal to invest $168 million in a Mojave Desert solar energy plant. The investment is going to BrightSource Energy, a company that developes and operates large-scale solar power plants, specifically to fund its Ivanpah project. Ivanpah is a solar electric generating system that uses solar thermal technology and \u201can environmentally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-google","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}