Nickname: Charlitron

Review: www.go.to/projectsolar

Date reviewed: Jul 29, 2008 12:12 AM

Nickname: bill

Review: Solar-Thermal has a history - worth doing background on, having beaten coal-fired electical plant in 1912, (yes 1912!) in Cairo Egypt. WW1 and German saboteurs ended that project, and cheap oil finished it off. Anyway, the history of solar-thermal is interesting and worth an article...

Date reviewed: Jul 17, 2006 3:07 PM

Nickname: Are we frustrated?

Review: Business Week is doing a fine job, but did err slightly in adding a quote that was not from Solel, if you read the article. It is very true that a number of companies are doing good work in this area. It is unfortunate that individuals are so juvenile that they resort to such hostility and make up their own facts rather that realize that any good press helps a whole industry. Maybe they are just jealous that Solel is on its way to closing $100 million in deals this year. It is easy to take anonymous shots from the cheep seats.

Date reviewed: Jun 16, 2006 1:16 AM

Nickname: Truth?

Review: It's appalling that BusinessWeek still has this story posted even though it contains a large number of inaccuracies. Solel is known around the industry for making false statements publicly - and is not to be trusted. Many other publications have actually retracted their articles about Solel once they realized the truth. The activities in solar are truly exciting and need to be reported on. However, the companies that are truly leading the way into the future of this technology (like SolarGenix, Schott, Acciona, etc.) should be given the credit they deserve. Not Solel.

Date reviewed: Mar 7, 2006 4:48 PM

Nickname: Trade Pub Editor

Review: Come on BusinessWeek! Does anyone fact-check this stuff? Solel is hardly the only company with this technology. Solargenix, which is building the Nevada project mentioned in this article, plans to use solar receivers from Germany's Schott AG for 100 percent of the project. Schott is not just "planning" on entering the field, as mentioned in this article, they're providing approximately 19,000 of these solar receivers for the project. Solargenix company officials told me personally that the Solel order is very small compared, with the Schott order and is in case there's supply problem with the Schott order. For the real story on the Nevada project and this technology, see the following link. http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=43336

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 4:53 AM

Nickname: TomSwift

Review: It's all the more telling when you say that they are the only company in the field. Since the crux of the matter relies on the cost/efficiency of the solar collectors, perhaps we should take a look at the "other" solar technology - low temperature solar, at matteranenergy.us where the cost of the collectors is already minimized.

Date reviewed: Feb 15, 2006 1:53 PM

Nickname: wordbuff

Review: This is very encouraging news -- hopefully substantive and not just sizzle.

Date reviewed: Feb 14, 2006 4:17 PM