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Earth Day 2010: The world’s most powerful solar power tower

Thursday, 22nd April 2010 by

Today is Earth Day, the mission of which is to “broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide”. Inspired by an excellent post over at the Google Earth Blog, today we’re going to visit the Planta Solar 20 – the world’s most powerful solar power tower. The PS20 solar power tower is a solar thermal energy plant near the sunny Spanish city of Seville. It has a power capacity of 20…

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For centuries, pilgrims have made their way to a small town in Galicia called Santaigo de Compostela. The cathedral at…

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