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Of very small diameter

BrightSource Industries, formerly known as Luz II, designs and manufactures thermal solar power plants. These generate electrical power by using solar energy to convert water to superheated steam. Solar fields reflect sunlight onto a receiver located on the top of a Power Tower. Each Power Tower module is linked by pipelines to a central location where superheated steam and electricity are produced. The first installation was built in Israel as a development facility, and was dedicated in June 2008. A series of 100 MW and 200 MW commercial solar power plants are scheduled to come on line in 2011–2012. BSII Ltd. is a wholly owned engineering and R&D subsidiary of BrightSource Energy Inc. (BSE) of Oakland, California.

Measure of thermal energy released by nuclear fuel relative to its mass, typically Gigawatt days per ton (GWd/tU).

The mechanism involves putting a cap on overall carbon emissions and allows companies to buy and sell emissions reductions, so that the cheapest cuts get made first. It is a means of cutting emissions from power stations.

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The calorific value of a fuel is the quantity of heat produced by its combustion – at constant pressure and under “normal” conditions of temperature and pressure ( 0 degrees C and under a pressure of 1,013 mbar).

For natural gas, the calorific value (CV) is a measure of heating power and is dependent upon the composition of the gas. The CV refers to the amount of energy released when a known volume of gas is completely combusted under specified conditions. The CV of gas, which is dry, gross and measured at standard conditions of temperature and pressure, is usually quoted in megajoules per cubic metre (MJ/m3).