Shell Oil recently became the second oil company to invest in solar energy to tap crude in older wells, putting $26 million into busy startup GlassPoint Solar.
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Pour un développement durable et pour l'efficacité énergétique. «Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prévoir mais de le rendre possible. » Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"In the complex world of enhanced oil recovery (EOR), sometimes low-tech trumps high. Case in point,
1) Royal Dutch Shell recently became the second oil major to invest in solar energy to coax heavy crude from older wells. Along with with two other investors, they’ve pumping $26 million into busy California startupGlassPoint Solar, because its low cost technology works so well in the dusty, dirty and often remote terrain of oil exploration
2) At the same time, competitors Chevron and Bright Source built a rival 27MW project just miles away (watch video), which used 3,822 expensive and unprotected heliostats, consisting of two 10′ x 7′ mirrors mounted on a steel pole.
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