Solar-thermal power plant: Putting the desert to use, 19 December 2007

This article shows that US is supplying environmentally friendly electricity - thanks to a solar-thermal power plant that recently went online in the desert there. The facility with an area of one sq km focuses sunlight for heating water, with the resulting steam used to drive a 64-megawatt turbine. The power plant currently supplies around 14,000 households with electricity. Similar new power plants are now set to be built worldwide, according to the magazine Pictures of the Future. In my opinion, Malaysia can try to demonstration this kind of project because Malaysia weather is very hot where is suitable for using solar power.