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I love learning about this kind of stuff.

CSP; concentrated solar power. It's a "green" technology that sounds great. Fuel to generate power? The sun. But these aren't solar panels on the roof of your neighbors house.

Look out of this worldly? The BBC guy thought so, too.

A concrete tower - 40 storeys high - stood bathed in intense white light, a totally bizarre image in the depths of the Andalusian countryside.

The tower looked like it was being hosed with giant sprays of water or was somehow being squirted with jets of pale gas. I had trouble working it out.

In fact, as we found out when we got closer, the rays of sunlight reflected by a field of 600 huge mirrors are so intense they illuminate the water vapour and dust hanging in the air.

The effect is to give the whole place a glow - even an aura - and if you're concerned about climate change that may well be deserved.

I found this when I went to this website, even though I meant to go to this one.

And from the first site, I found this cnn article. Here are some pretty fun things from that article:

One of the byproducts of CSP, waste heat, can be used to desalinate seawater(conversely, it can produce thermal cooling, otherwise known as air conditioning). And this is what TREC believes will make it more appealing for the MENA region, as its CSP project will effectively enable the countries there to avert the kind of crises in the future that people now commonly refer to as the Water Wars. (noternie note: MENA is Middle East, North Africa)

Serving the Yemeni city of Sana'a for example, "which is facing the exhaustion of its ground water reserves in about 15 years", CSP-treated water will save the international community billions of dollars in the future, when millions leave their homes for lack of water, it argues. Moving 2 million of Sana'a's citizens to new homes will cost around $44 billion. But it would cost $7 billion to build the CSP plants, which would prevent them leaving in the first place, TREC argues.

Exciting, nonpartisan, plausible, forseable, positive, clean, lasting solution.

More in-depth information can be found by reading and following links from the article on wikipedia. Read one of the above linked articles and see if you don't get excited by the possibilities here.