Solar Power Helps Squeeze Last Drops from Old Oil Wells

Miller-McCune by John Perlin | Sep. 19, 2009 (Special Report)

Last month, the oil and solar industry joined hands in an oil field about a century off its prime that Chevron owns in Coalinga, Calif., where steam is required to sufficiently thin what oil remains so it can be extracted. The oil company signed a deal with Bright Source Energy to build a demonstration project: Thousands of flat mirrors will reflect concentrated sunlight on a boiler atop a tower, superheating the water to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit to ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Oil and Gas, Energy
Member Tags: solar power, renewables
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Posted by: Posted by W. MacKenzie - Sep 19, 2009 - 10:27 AM PDT
Reviewed by: W. MacKenzie (review), Walter Cox (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Derek Hawkins (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 19, 2009 - 1:56 PM PDT
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 by Fabrice Florin - Sep. 20, 2009

Interesting but short report on how major oil companies are starting to use solar power in a variety of ways. Though the information appears factual, the sourcing on this article raises some questions, relying on several anonymous sources to support its point.

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 by W. MacKenzie - Sep. 19, 2009

This is a great story with some good history regarding the partnership between the solar industry and the oil industry. The irony here is amazing.

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