What are its advantages and disadvantages of this technology as compared to Solar PV?
Solar PV is expensive and one reason it is expensive compared to other energy sources like oil is that you need a lot of PV panels that take up a lot of area to produce a certain amount of electricity. Concentrated solar though requires a much small footprint because it operates at a higher level of efficiency converting more of the sun per unit of collector into energy. However it is still not known for sure whether the cost of this technology will be competitive with PV solar much less petroleum or natural gas because this technology is still in the experimental stages. At the present time there is no capacity to mass produce the parts needed to make the SES solar concentrators so they are expensive to make. SES of course believes that once they have developed an economy of scale the cost will of constructing these arrays will go down dramatically. What is the Form Factor? The two major companies developing concentrating solar technology have used External combusion engines as the ge
