{"id":532458,"date":"2010-04-18T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2010-04-18T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:35:36","slug":"new-solar-thermal-plant-in-egypt-could-yield-clue-to-sucess-of-massive-desertec-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532458","title":{"rendered":"New Solar Thermal Plant in Egypt Could Yield Clue to Sucess of Massive DESERTEC Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8482\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/18\/new-solar-thermal-plant-in-egypt-could-yield-clue-to-sucess-of-massive-desertec-project\/new-solar-thermal-project-in-egypt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8482\" title=\"New solar thermal project in Egypt\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/New-solar-thermal-project-in-Egypt.jpg\" alt=\"Huge new solar thermal project in Egypt could indicate success for larger DESERTEC project\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><a title=\"energyboom.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energyboom.com\/solar\/going-solar-egypts-first-solar-thermal-plant-under-construction\" >A pyramid-scale solar power plant<\/a> is well under way in Kuraymat, Egypt, and the 150 megawatt giant could prove to be a key indicator for the success of a much larger project such as the pharaohs could only dream of.\u00a0 That would be the international <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desertec.org\/\" >DESERTEC<\/a> solar power network, which would rim northern Africa with solar and wind power plants capable of supplying solar energy to European markets. It&#8217;s an ambitious plan that rests on two key elements &#8211; the ability to collect solar energy on a massive scale, and the ability to transmit it.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in <a title=\"energyboom.com home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energyboom.com\" >Energy Boom<\/a>, the Kuraymat plant will tackle the collection half of the equation.\u00a0 It will consist of 2,000 solar collectors covering 130,000 square meters.\u00a0 A <a title=\"solar thermal on wikipedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_thermal_energy\" >solar thermal<\/a> facility, it is designed to collect solar energy in the form of heat rather than directly converting it to electricity as is the case with photovoltaic cells.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/18\/new-solar-thermal-plant-in-egypt-could-yield-clue-to-sucess-of-massive-desertec-project\/#more-8481\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pyramid-scale solar power plant is well under way in Kuraymat, Egypt, and the 150 megawatt giant could prove to be a key indicator for the success of a much larger project such as the pharaohs could only dream of.\u00a0 That would be the international DESERTEC solar power network, which would rim northern Africa with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}