When Nevada solar One came on line in 2007, it was the first large solar plant to be built in the United States in more than 17 years.

内华达太阳能一号在2007年上线运转，是当时美国境内超过17年来所兴建的第一座大型太阳能电厂。

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Concentrating Solar at Nevada Solar One near Las Vegas, oil piped down long rows of reflectors soaks up focused sunlight, becoming hot enough to make steam and run a 64-megawatt power plant.

集中式太阳能在拉斯维加斯附近内华达州的一个太阳能场，管道般长排下来的反射镜片吸收了太阳光聚焦，转化足够的热量生产蒸汽驱动一个64兆瓦的发电厂。

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Thirty-five miles southeast of Las Vegas is a 280-acre shining oasis on a parched desert plain: the power plant called Nevada Solar One.

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Nevada Solar One uses a parabolic trough design, in which curved mirrors, 16 feet from top to bottom, concentrate the sun's rays onto a glass tube with a steel bar at its center.

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He dreams of building gigawatt-size plants, of shipping solar thermal power to the cloudy Northeast and of using molten salt to store energy so thermal plants can power homes at night. (Nevada Solar One is only for daytime peak loads.) He envisions mirrors in space that can soak up sunlight 24 hours a day.

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