Green Technology

Ausra will build manufacturing facility in Las Vegas, Nevada to produce solar thermal power systems. The manufacturing plant is expected to come online in April of 2008 and is sized to produce up to 700 mega watts of solar thermal capacity on an annual basis. Solar thermal technology works through the use of solar collectors that boil water at high temperature to power steam turbine generators. ...

... "The 130,000-square-foot, highly automated manufacturing and distribution center will produce the reflectors, towers, absorber tubes, and other key components of the company's solar thermal power plants. Solar thermal power plants use fields of mirrors to capture the sun's power to produce electricity without pollution. " ...