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Well, thermal is smaller so it can be expected to be more concentrated.

And yes, now it is developed by the west for the west. My line of thought is which branch is later easier adopted for production and usage along the equator, and my bet is on really on small thermal, which I think will benefit from advances in large solar.

Molten salt is storage and storage depends usage. But yes, if you need molten salt storage for it to make sense you are probably on a technological level where PV is as attractive as thermal.

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Sep 2nd, 2011 at 04:24:10 PM EST
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My line of thought is which branch is later easier adopted for production and usage along the equator, and my bet is on really on small thermal, which I think will benefit from advances in large solar.

I'm not sure what you mean. If by "small thermal", you mean heat-generating solar thermal, that tecnology in fact has little to do with CSP and is really low-tech. As for CSP, I don't see how you get it small and cheap, and how you "low-tech" the receivers, generators and mirrors.

Meanwhile, even though PV is high-tech, half of production now shifted to domestic companies of low-wage East Asian countries.

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by DoDo on Sat Sep 3rd, 2011 at 03:27:16 AM EST
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