Monday, July 16, 2012

USA, Nevada:

First solar-geothermal plant blooms in Nevada's high desert (Engadget)

Enel Green Power's Stillwater geothermal/solar
plant (Courtesy Engadget)
Drive west on US Route 50 through a stretch of Nevada highway known as "The Loneliest Road in America" and you'll eventually find yourself in the rural county of Churchill. Once a solitary leg in the Pony Express route, irrigation transformed swaths of Churchill's high desert areas into thriving agricultural communities more than a century ago. Fast forward to today and Churchill finds itself playing host to yet another interesting dichotomy -- a first-of-its-kind power plant that generates electricity by harvesting renewable resources from both earth and sky.