Water inside the receiver becomes super-heated and produces steam. The steam could be used for heating, industrial processes, or could turn a generator to produce electricity. No buyers have stepped forward offering to grab the next dish off the line because there is no line. By 1986, the company had two impressive prototypes and six employees. But in 1986, the price of oil collapsed and government funding for renewable energy projects had long since dried up under Reaganism.
Wood has a new design on the drawing board.
The Clinton Administration has undertaken a Global Climate Change Initiative, but its focus and funding remain unclear. Wood's theories about the government's failure to support renewable energy are numerous. More to the point, he argues, is that the Department of Energy has never been interested in energy. DOE's heart and soul rests with the atom bomb and the reactors used to produce its deadly ingredients. A trip in late July to a conference at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. reinforced his previous perceptions.