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GE to Build First Hybrid Natural Gas-Wind-Sun Power Plant

Posted June 10, 2011 12:45 PM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

The 530-megawatt plant is expected to debut in Turkey in 2015. In May, GE announced a new type of power plant that ambitiously combines solar with natural gas and wind energy technologies in a way that could make renewable energy economically viable. The 530-megawatt plant is expected to debut in Turkey in 2015. It will combine the recently announced FlexEfficiency 50 power plant (above) -- which runs on wind power and natural gas -- with a solar thermal system by eSolar -- which uses an array of mirrors to concentrate sunlight and heat water to drive turbines.

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Re: GE to Build First Hybrid Natural Gas-Wind-Sun Power Plant

06/14/2011 9:13 AM

I Just Don't Understand It? Here We Have G.E. And We Have Our Country Which Helped It To Attain It's Monetary Status And Yet It Goes Where? It Goes To Turkey To Build A Solar/Gas Power Plant Rather Than Here? And You Wonder What Is Wrong With The Country?

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