CSP

Bill Gross is known as a man with many ideas. During the dot-com days, he founded IdeaLab, a technology incubator that spun out a number of huge successes (GoTo.com, which became Overture, the model for Google's advertising juggernaut), as well as its fair share of huge failures. In recent years,...

Last week, a heavy hitting consortium of companies unveiled plans for a $550 billion solar farm to be built in the sunblasted North African desert. The plan called for the biggest ever deployment of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), a massive effort that could supply 15 percent of Europe's power....

Last week came word that a number of German industrial and financial giants, including Siemens (SI) and Deutsche Bank (DB), are planning a massive solar farm to be built in the North African desert. The farm would supply roughly 15 percent of Europe's power requirements. Power would flow through...