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.
Jones says Skyonic's exhaust scrubbing technology is cheaper than traditional wet limestone treatment, and it can be scaled to fit small and medium-size coal plants.