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As the title says. How would I create an instance of a class that is globally available(for example I have a functor for printing and i want to have a single global instance of this(though the possibility of creating more)).
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Going to all the effort of making a singleton object using the usual pattern isn't addressing the second part of your question - the ability to make more if needed. The singleton "pattern" is very restrictive and isn't anything more than a global variable by another name.
Now, in any other module just include
First off the fact that you want global variables is a 'code smell' (as Per Martin Fowler).
But to achieve the affect you want you can use a variation of the Singleton.
As a slight modification to the singleton pattern, if you do want to also allow for the possibility of creating more instances with different lifetimes, just make the ctors, dtor, and operator= public. That way you get the single global instance via GetInstance, but you can also declare other variables on the heap or the stack of the same type.
The basic idea is the singleton pattern, however.
Singleton is nice pattern to use but it has its own disadvantages. Do read following blogs by Miško Hevery before using singletons.
The simplest and concurrency safe implementation is Scott Meyer's singleton:
See topic IV here for an analysis from John Vlissides (from GoF fame).
the Singleton pattern is what you're looking for.
I prefer to allow a singleton but not enforce it so in never hide the constructors and destructors. That had already been said just giving my support.
My twist is that I don't use often use a static member function unless I want to create a true singleton and hide the constr. My usual approach is this:
Why not use a static instance of T instead of a placement new? The static instance gives the construction order guarantees, but not destruction order. Most objects are destroyed in reverse order of construction, but static and global variables. If you use the static instance version you'll eventually get mysterious/intermittent segfaults etc after the end of main.
This means the the singletons destructor will never be called. However, the process in coming down anyway and the resources will be reclaimed. That's kinda tough one to get used to but trust me there is not a better cross platform solution at the moment. Luckily, C++0x has a made changes to guarantee destruction order that will fix this problem. Once your compiler supports the new standard just upgrade the singleton function to use a static instance.
Also, I in the actual implemenation I use boost to get aligned memory instead of a plain character array, but didn't want complicate the example

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Governor Mitt Romney wins the fight in Indiana, but loses the war. President Barack Obama wins the day and four more years.
In Indiana, Congressman Joe Donnelly gets a promotion. He moves from representing a district that was actually redistricted from underneath him by Republican lawmakers to a seat in the United States Senate. For Donnelly, redistricting wasn't an end, it was an opportunity.
He has Richard Mourdock to thank for that. When Mourdock upset 36-year incumbent Richard Lugar, Republicans knew they would have a fight on their hands to keep the seat. Mourdock may have thought fellow Republicans would rally to his cause, but that never really happened.
It was an uneasy alliance, at best.
When a third party PAC sent out a mailer saying Richard Lugar endorsed the Mourdock campaign, the Lugar camp only said that it would vote for him, nothing more. The message was clear. Lugar would not campaign for the man who defeated him. Lugar supporters took the cue. Some would hold their bitterness and vote for Mourdock, but most would cross over or vote Libertarian.
While Mourdock tried to rally his base, Donnelly worked to expand his. Recognizing an opportunity, he went after Lugar Republicans.
Then, Mourdock delivered a gift that cemented his demise – the off-handed comment about abortion in cases of rape. It echoed not only around the state, but the entire country. It fed extremist fears that Democrats everywhere tried to use to show Republicans were waging a war on women. From that day on, all Joe Donnelly had to do is go through the motions: the election was his.
In the race for governor, we have all been entertained by the John Gregg campaign commercials. But even as I watched, I often thought if he were running for mayor of Sandborn he would win. I envisioned, instead, a commercial showing him walking down a long road, talking about where we've come from and where we needed to go. Something more serious, with more direction, more purpose. His campaign showed me once again why we like John Gregg, but we've always known he was a nice man, but I don't think we knew enough about why he should be elected governor.
Congressman Mike Pence ran an above-the-fray campaign. He inherited a mantle from Governor Mitch Daniels, just by being a member of the same political party. Hoosiers assumed he would just continue in Daniels footsteps.
They were comfortable with that.
Pence tried hard not to disrupt that sentiment or alarm anyone. Status quo was the unspoken theme of the campaign, until Mourdock's comments. It raised alarmist fears and his opponent tried to tie him to Mourdock. It gave voters pause, but in the end, it was not enough to make Hoosiers change their minds. They want continuity. Pence could offer that, Gregg could not.
Now Mike Pence will hold a press conference with Governor Daniels on Wednesday morning. The two will talk of transition and the future. That is good, because voters are tired of all the negative ads and negative words. Now they want to be reassured. They want a respite from politics. They want to talk about the Colts and the Pacers and – can you believe it? – I think they want to just see a regular TV commercial again.


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VT EUROMEET was May 28th/29th/30th 2010...so will be sprucing up my old pages and adding new ones ..:)
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I spent a wonderful week here in the cold snowy weather
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One night around the 15th of Febuary 2005 a cold and stormy night with snow everywhere. So cold yet still so many people, mostly young Polish students out and about. There are a couple of 24 delicatess shops where you can buy fresh Polish produce, more pricey than the normal shops, but heck Poland has to be one of the cheapest countries in Europe. The loal Cracovians will warm the cockels of your heart, even in -10 cold and a snow storm pouring heaps of white powder onto this city of kings.
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Looking forward to some more meeting pictures :)
Hi Tim, Thank you so much for sharing the Krakow Meeting pics. 'looks like a whole lot of fun!
Great to meet with you Tim and thanks for that list, I'll be working through it looking for photos soon. Looks like you had a great time there a few years back as well.
Nice to chat with you in Krakow look forward to some more pics
I`m taking the night train tonight around 10pm back to Budapest....Was a fantastic time for the 6th Euromeet
I hope to visit Krakow next month. Ciao!
I was in Krakow with a very short stay some years ago and realized how beautiful it was! Thank you Tim for reminding! Oh, those awful events in WWII years... Quite agree with you... Do you know that soviet army saved the old city from explosion?
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There is the perception that the 49ers have a feared 2 TE set with VD and Walker - but Walker seems to be very little threat in the offense and when he does have a chance to make plays he is dropping balls - 2 today? Do others share that perception? Maybe Celek should get some playing time in 2 TE sets - he was apparently kept because they like his hands.
Gore - I believed Gore had become a North-South only running, lacking burst around the edge anymore. Hmmm, he got to the edge today!
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The Office of the Auditor-general has ruled out an inquiry
into the purchasing of rolling stock by KiwiRail, satisfied
the state-owned enterprise has done nothing wrong.
Marking 50 years of work at the Hillside foundry, Roger
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before heading to his local for a beer. The 65-year-old
started as a Hillside moulding apprentice on February 7,
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Labour Party Dunedin South MP Clare Curran.
Down but not out, redundant Hillside workers are vowing to
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will be resurrected under a new government.
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Cisco Falls After Forecast Misses Analysts' Estimates
Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of networking equipment, fell 10 percent in Nasdaq trading after forecasting sales that missed analysts' estimates and saying the recovery may be slowing.
The stock dropped the most since 2008, falling $2.37 to $21.36 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Revenue in the current quarter will be between $10.64 billion and $10.83 billion, the San Jose, California-based company said on a conference call. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had estimated $10.95 billion.
Spending by global companies on information technology equipment will slow to 4 percent next year as the economy weakens, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. While Cisco is expanding into more than 30 new markets, the company said concerns about the European economy and job growth in the U.S. caused it to be conservative in its forecast for growth in the fiscal first quarter.
"There are obviously headwinds," said Catharine Trebnick, an analyst at Avian Securities Inc. in Boston, who has a "positive" rating on the shares. "The growth to get back to a normal economy is slower than anticipated."
Juniper Networks Inc., the second-biggest networking-gear maker, fell 6.8 percent on the New York Stock Exchange. JDS Uniphase Corp., the maker of fiber-optic equipment, slid 5.7 percent on the Nasdaq, and storage-computer maker NetApp Inc. lost 8.7 percent.
Unlikely Double Dip
Chief Executive Officer John Chambers, 60, said the company was seeing "unusual uncertainty" and getting "mixed signals" about the health of the economy. While many of its customers were planning on 2 percent growth in the second half of the calendar year, the pace of the recovery in the U.S. and Europe was less clear, Chambers said. That doesn't mean the company expects the economy to worsen, he said.
"We're not making a call on the economy going down," Chambers said yesterday on a conference call. "I think the probabilities on a double dip, or whatever you want to call it, are relatively low."
Fourth-quarter sales climbed 27 percent to $10.8 billion, the company said in a statement. Analysts had predicted $10.9 billion in the period ended July 31. Net income jumped 79 percent to $1.94 billion, or 33 cents a share, from $1.08 billion, or 19 cents, a year earlier.
Excluding some costs, fourth-quarter profit was 43 cents a share, above the 42-cent average estimate.
"There is some growing evidence that the economy is starting to have an impact," said Erik Suppiger, an analyst at Signal Hill Capital Group in San Francisco. He has a "buy" rating on the shares and doesn't own them.
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Investors look to Cisco as an indication of the health of the technology industry because the company dominates the market for routers and switches, products that direct the flow of Internet traffic. Large companies account for most sales of switches, while phone and Internet-service providers typically buy the more expensive routers.
Cisco took advantage of the economic slump by making acquisitions. It paid more than $4.5 billion to buy seven companies since the start of 2009 as businesses delayed spending on infrastructure during the recession.
The acquisitions of Tandberg ASA, which sells lower-cost videoconferencing products, and Pure Digital Technologies Inc., which makes the Flip video camera, were aimed to position Cisco for faster growth as the economy recovers.
By promoting video cameras and videoconferencing gear, the company aims to generate even more Internet traffic, increasing demand for its routers and switches. Global data traffic probably will more than double every year through 2013, according to Cisco.
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Cisco said it hired 2,000 workers last quarter and would add an additional 3,000 to help its burgeoning businesses grow globally. That signals confidence in a recovery, said Simon Leopold, an analyst at Morgan Keegan & Co. in New York.
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Name: Eva Kafes
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Position / Grade: English teacher
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Personality: Strict | Loyal | Brave | Reserved
Eva has more of a 'tough love' outlook when it comes to teaching and she does not tolerate laziness, especially from students that she knows can do better work. Although she will give younger students a bit more of a break, the older they are the less she's willing to let slide. She tends to mask her emotions, and it's rare for anything to get an emotional response out of her. However, she really does care for her students and she wants them to succeed in school and in life.
In her younger years, she took up a position as a sailor and spent many years on the sea. She was much more wild then, but when the boat came under a new captain's rule she grew distasteful of his leadership. Tired of his poor treatment of her and the rest of the crew, Eva quit that life and decided to turn over a new leaf. While on the boat, she had taught a few of her fellow sailors how to read and write- this inspired her to go after a teaching degree in English. As a new teacher she was quite surprised to receive an invitation to teach at Alma Monster, but she took the position gratefully.
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+ She can't fly in her human form, but she can jump very high and glide short distances
+ Physically strong and tough, and is a skilled fighter (although she doesn't expect to have to fight anything at this school)
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TravelPod Member ReviewsAnker Hotel Oslo
It's quite a good hotel at an affordable price, located at the heart of Oslo, close to the train station. Breakfast is excellent, rooms are quite comfortable, service is good.
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I really liked this hotel, situated right next to the Hostel that was sold out for the weekend we were there. This hotel let us check in early, at no extra cost. The room was quite spacious for being in Norway, and the show had excellent water pressure. The breakfast, included in the price, had both traditional and more American options. The staff was friendly, and able to answer questions. There were also computers in the lobby, and free wifi.
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Mixed feelings
If you have ever stayed at a Best Western hotel before, forget about it because the Anker Hotel is like no other BW at all. To me it felt more like some sort of student residence, in a kind of way.
The whole place could do with an overall revamp. I personally found the green walls of my room rather unfortunate. And yet, the room was spacious, if basic, and the bed was comfortable. I never quite understood the purpose of a four-seat sofa in a single room though. A larger bed would have been of better use. The room had no air-con, not a real problem in October though, and the ever so boring BBC News was the only channel available in a language other than Norwegian. The bathroom was small, but functional.
The hotel is a straightforward 10 to 15 minute walk from Karl Johans Gate, in what seems to be quite a multi-cultural neighbourhood of Oslo, with plenty of ethnic restaurants just around the corner from the hotel on Torggata. Those sensitive to noise should also bear in mind that the hotel is on a very busy thoroughfare. The noise from the traffic did not particularly bother me as I always travel with a set of earplugs, but light sleepers should definitely consider staying in a quieter part of town.
Buffet breakfast was good, consisting of bread, cereals, hot and cold meats, eggs, fruit juice, tea and coffee. Something to look forward to first thing in the morning. There are also tea and coffee making facilities in the lobby, by the reception desk.
All in all, I found the BW Anker Hotel a decent place to stay bearing in mind that it is one of the cheapest options in an otherwise extremely expensive city, even by London standards.
Great Rates, Great Location
Great place to stay. Small rooms, but totally functional. Breakfast was great. Staff was helpful. Very reasonable rates in a very expensive city. Great location too.
So-so hotel
The room was small, the area was not good, the curtains were not heavy enough to cover the sun rising at 4am, and even at the 11th floor, it was still pretty noisy. But it was only �60 for a double so if you don't mind the above, I guess I'd say this hotel is ok.
Fun But Dirty
The Anker Hostel is the cheapest you're gonna find in Oslo, and that's saying a lot. The ground floor is hospitable, with a lounge and a bar, but the actual rooms leave much to be desired. The shower is indistingushable from the rest of the bathroom - prepare to get everything in the bathroom soaked. The kitchen areas are more like empty cupboards and a sink - absolutely useless for weekend travelers. The best part of the hotel was the deal with the Best Western next door for a discount on their buffet breakfast - the cheapest meal you'll get in Oslo, rest assured.
Best feature of this place is its very central location.Stayed in a double room with en suite facilities which was clean but basic.Overlooked an apartment building of some sort..looked dodgy at first but was fine.Hostel staff not particularly friendly and certainly NOT helpful.Contrary to the Lonely Planet review, saw no roaches on my stay there. No breakfast included in the price-important to note in expensive Oslo.
All in all would recommend as a cheap-ish,central,clean place to stay in Oslo.
Great Place!
Our stay at the Anker was great. The people at the front desk were very nice & friendly and helpful with directions. Check-in and check-out was very easy and fast. There was a free breakfast every morning which was delicious, with a little something for everyone. The room itself was very nice. It was very clean. The beds were so soft and comfortable. There were two closets to hang clothes, so there was plenty of room. The floor in the bathroom was even heated! It was great.
It's a short walk from downtown, and theres a trolley right outside if you don't want to walk. It's also a short walk the "hip" part of town, with the bars and the clubs. Overall, I would definitely recommend this place. If I ever get back to Oslo, I'll be staying there.
Basic, central and relatively cheap
This hotel is on two useful tram routes, and about 15 minutes walk from the railway station, 20 minutes from the port. It is attached to a hostel, and the rooms are basic, but acceptable. Breakfast is very good. There is a self service laundry in the hostel, which you can use, but the machines are v slow. Allow 3 hours. Go to see the statues in Frognerpark, go on an evening cruise around the islands, see the Viking ship museum and try the bok ole (brown ale).
Decent hotel in a city that s*cks
We've been there for 2 nights, 17-18.08.2004.
The hotel is quite nice, rooms are clean but really small. In the bathroom there is no shower tub just a hole in the floor, but it seems it's just a Norway way.
The food was good, the location could be better (if you prefer walking, you need to walk like 15-20 minutes to the center and additional 5 to the City Hall).
Over all - like in the title - decent hotel in the city that really s*cks (at least for me).
Stuck in this hotel for a week
I was stuck in this hotel for a week having pre-paid for the stay. The most annoying aspect of the hotel is the low level of lighting throughout. My room was painted an appalling barn red which made the poor light level even worse. What was most curious was that the room was equipt with a shower - but no shower enclosure! The bathroom had a drain in the floor and a surround curtain - - that's all!
The Breakfast is a generous buffet and is available from 6:30 A.M. if you relish rising in the Winter in a city that sees no sun until late morning.
There is no food service available after that and the prices charged for snacks and sodas are outrageous.
Good but no frills
Anker Hotel Best Western. Stayed one night over the weekend. The place has no character at all. Location is good with tram and bus connections a 1 minute walk away. Rooms were clean and tidy, although on the small side. Everything as expected from a 2/3 star hotel was included.
Breakfast a selection of cold meat, cheeses, bread. Not bad as it's included in the price.We got to stay in the hotel as free upgrade from the Anker Hostel (which is in the same complex). Therefore no complaints. I'd say it's good if you are looking for a centrally located place to stay and don't need any frills.
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Cotto has T-rex arms. Oscar had the same reach as Floyd. Cotto had a 5 inch shorter reach. Oscar was 5'10 and fought like he was 5'10. Cotto is 5'7 and in his stance fights like hes 5'5. Oscar had an ATG level jab. Cotto had a good jab. Oscar had a good right hand. Cottos is average on his best day.
Mayweather was barely a welterweight when he fought Oscar at 154. Hes a muscular beast now.
Comparing the 2 is nonsensical. Might as well compare Chaf Dawson and Andre Dirrell because their both southpaws lol.
Too much is emphasized on the old reach/wingspan measurement. I like HBO's more accurate arm length measurement. As for the arm length of each fighter, Mayweather has a 26 inch arm length and Cotto's arm measures 23.5 inches. So Mayweather has a 2.5 inch reach advantage.
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I'm going to write my first review, solely because having read so many good reviews about this film angers me. I urge whoever is reading this to avoid the movie at all costs, unless you really feel like wasting 90 minutes of your life.
I went into this film excited, thinking I'd soon be laying my eyes upon a masterpiece which would open my mind to some knowledge and beauty, mystery; and how wrong was I! Like many others have already stated, there is absolutely no plot, so if you're going to watch the movie, do not agitate your mind trying to figure out what's going on, cause you won't get it. This movie was never meant to have an interesting plot, but instead to show us how our protagonist slowly descends into madness while trying to figure out the "universal code" which he believes he will find in mathematics. This film could have had a lot of potential to be something big, instead, we get to watch 90 minutes of grainy black-and-white footage with unsuitable audio and poor acting. I don't know, maybe it was I who simply didn't "get" this movie, but for me, it was a complete let-down and I was simply counting the minutes until it would end.


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Arbico's Elite 9590 HD is a fantastic desktop PC with a good balance of features, but it ultimately loses out on price in this very closely fought contest.
The Intel Core i7 950 makes its third appearance in the chart, propelling the Arbico Elite 9590 HD to an excellent score of 151 points in our WorldBench 6 real-world speed test - CyberPower's Core i7 960-based Heaven scored only one point more. Gaming performance is considerably slower, however, with the Elite using a single HD 4890 in place of the CyberPower's two.
Although Crysis doesn't reveal much of a difference between using one or two graphics cards, other games do - including Fear, where the CyberPower scores 399fps to the Arbico Elite 9590 HD's 256fps.
The Arbico Elite 9590 HD's Asus P6T SE motherboard comes with three free memory slots and supports multiple graphics cards in CrossFireX mode, so you could easily upgrade the graphics power later should you feel the need.
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Arbico's Elite 9590 HD is a fantastic performer with a good balance of features, but it ultimately loses out on price in this very closely fought contest.
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Processor: Intel's quad-core Core i7 CPUs offer a number of speed boosts, including the ability to run eight threads simultaneously, although they require more expensive motherboards and memory than previous-generation chips. At this price, the Core i7 950 or 960 would be a great choice.
Memory: A £1,001-plus Core i7 PC should come with at least 6GB of RAM (although 3GB is acceptable if it compensates with other extras). For dual-core machines, look for 4GB in two modules to allow room for expansion.
The triple-channel architecture of Core i7 9XX-based PCs requires you to install chips in threes. Core i7 8XX-series CPUs use a two-channel system, which will save you some cash. You'll also need to splash out on DDR3 RAM, but the price of such memory is falling fast. A 64bit operating system can take full advantage of this memory, particularly if you're running a dual-graphics setup.
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Arbico Elite 9590 HD: Specs
- 3.06GHz Intel Core i7 950
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
- 3 x 500GB SATA (2 in Raid 0 configuration)
- Asus P6T SE
- 8 x USB 2.0
- 800W WinPower PSU
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- 1GB PCI Express PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 4890 (games scores: Crysis [High/Very High] = 78/29fps
- Fear = 256fps)
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- two-year return-to-base warranty
- WorldBench 6 score: 151
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- 1GB PCI Express PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 4890 (games scores: Crysis [High/Very High] = 78/29fps
- Fear = 256fps)
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A third person said he had a 17-year-old son, "and I don't mind telling you how much -- I mean, how happy that made me, not only to see the silhouette of my son, but to hear that voice coming and saying, 'Yeah, it's me, Dad. I'm here and I love you.'"
People with retinitis pigmentosa suffer damage to the light-sensitive cells of the retina. As these cells slowly degenerate, patients lose side vision and night vision and later on, central vision. The disease can cause blindness,
The FDA's approval is a limited one, labeled a "humanitarian use device" approval, meaning the Argus II can be used only for fewer than 4,000 patients per year.
The FDA is currently restricting approval to people aged 25 years and older who have severe retinitis pigmentosa and can see light but not identify its source. Eligible patients also include those who cannot see light, but who have some retinal function and a history of being able to see forms.
In addition, patients must be willing and able to get the recommended follow-up, device fitting and visual rehabilitation, the agency said.
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Greenberg said the device does not restore full vision, but does give patients what he calls "low vision," meaning it lets them perform visual tasks that they couldn't otherwise do.
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Concentrated solar thermal power — a core climate solution
I promised this week would focus on technology. Other than energy efficiency (see here), I don't believe any set of technologies will be more important to the climate fight than concentrated solar power (CSP).
I have a long article on CSP in Salon, "The technology that will save humanity: The solar energy you haven't heard of is the one best suited to generate clean electricity for generations to come."
OK, maybe "will" should be "may help" [I'm an optimist, sue me!] and CP readers have heard about CSP for a while (see here). But I do think CSP deserves much more attention:
It is the best source of clean energy to replace coal and sustain economic development. I bet that it will deliver more power every year this century than coal with carbon capture and storage — for much less money and with far less environmental damage….
How much less? Many industry experts told me CSP will likely deliver power for well under $.10 per kilowatt hour fully installed in the next decade.
What is its market potential? I think it could be more than two wedges, which is several thouand gigawatts:
It would be straightforward to build CSP systems at whatever rate industry and governments needed, ultimately 50 to 100 gigawatts a year growth or more.
Why is CSP so important?
Because it's the only form of clean electricity that can meet all the demanding requirements of this century….
The Salon article goes through those requirements and explains why. The article also goes through some of the fascinating three-millenium history behind "One of oldest forms of energy used by humans — sunlight concentrated by mirrors."
One final point — based on the early comments on the Salon piece, I realize that many people think that a flaw in CSP is that it would require long-distance transmission lines that would lose massive amounts of power. Well, my (terrific) editor cut out a key clause that I probably should've put back:
"We will need more transmission in this country," [especially low-loss long-distance high-voltage DC lines].
I'll have to do a HVDC lines piece soon, but you can read more than what want to know about HVDC here at Wikipedia, which notes:
Depending on voltage level and construction details, losses are quoted as about 3% per 1000 km [600 miles].
CSP is a technology that all progressive should become knowledgeable about.
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This sounds like excellent technology, I'd love to see it take off. But I'm curious, how well does it scale up or down? Instead of putting PV panels on my roof, would it be possible to have a tiny CSP system instead? Or is there some minimum size to make such a system practical?
I too am a big fan of CSP and happy to see coverage.
One comment I have about the Salon article… you imply that the water problem is a non-issue by stating that air cooling can be used. While true that air cooling can be used that is also true of any other power generating technology from coal to nuclear. The caveat is that air cooling increases capital costs and/or reduces efficiencies. Therefore the cost estimates for cents/kWh that you give would likely not hold for air cooled systems… I assume. A more complete coverage of this issue would be helpful.
Also, it would seem that the U.S. regulatory system favors local generation over long distance transmission. In addition to mechanisms such as tax credits and loan guarantees, are there regulatory or structural issues that must be addressed to enable the free flow of electricity on a country wide scale?
Joe, I've spent a lot of time researching CSP. I like it. It's a nice technology. But when I compare the "stop-global-warming-effectiveness" of CSP to liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR) there's just no comparison. LFTR has the potential to provide all of the energy the planet needs from a material that is far more abundant than uranium and far less difficult to recover. Take a look at this:
especially slide 11.
Joe, it's only 11MB, it won't take you that long to download.
The "nuclear" option is often dismissed on sites like these because they are fixed on the light-water reactor paradigm. So they get in the mode of saying things like "we can't build them fast enough" or "we'll have to build 10 Yucca Mountains" or "we'll run out of uranium in 50 years anyway". Those statements might be true for light-water reactors, but not for liquid-fluoride thorium reactors.
This reactor type went from an idea to a demonstration in 3 years in the 1950s, when we had practically no nuclear modeling capability like we do now. It doesn't require large forged pressure vessels or huge containments. It get much better efficiency than LWRs and uses a tiny fraction of the resources. It can be built fast and super-safe, because the safety features are inherent to the design, not engineered in later like LWRs. Engineered safety can fail, inherent safety is immutable. This reactor CAN stop global warming AND lift the world's standard of living at the same time. That's worth working on.
Geothermal could also be very important. We could also tap old oil wells for geothermal energy.
HVDC losses of only 3% per 1000 km seem quite, quite low to me. I would suggest checking more definitive references if the actual number actually matters.
PhilD, air cooling is trivial for some CSP technologies, such as Stirling dishes, since the cooling happens at each dish. Being distributed in this way is not an option for fossil and nuclear plants. However, this is not an option for CSP with Thermal Energy Storage, such as Ausra and BrightSource. They use conventional steam turbines, which require traditional cooling, which can be via water, air, or a hybrid.
Traditional air cooling technology involves fans to drive sufficient air flow as an alternative to cooling towers. The primary problem with this is that it becomes inefficient on very hot days. This has led to what is sometimes called "hybrid cooling": using air cooling most of the time, and wet cooling when air cooling becomes too inefficient. You can find out more in the EPRI Journal.
I'm a big supporter of CSP and am trying to get the public in the SW interested in this resource at http://www.solarsouthwest.org. However I want to be realistic about the challenges facing the industry.
To get to paying perhaps $.10/kWh we have to start deploying this technology at a somewhat higher cost. The $.10 kWh for a fossil fuel replacement plant with storage is with 98% probability not going to just pop out of a laboratory but will come from economies of scale in manufacturing and construction. If Americans want to get a leg up on this they should be willing to pay somewhat more now to start catching up to the Spanish. Abengoa in its literature puts the crossover point for cost of CSP over natural gas plants at about 2018. But if we sit on our hands at higher per/kWH costs, we won't get these deployed in time or remain dependent on countries (Spain primarily) with better renewable energy support structures to do the heavy lifting.
"For average distances of 5,000 km, HVDC transmission losses would be about 25%."
see also
Some VCs I know are keen on CSP since:
a) They're clearly well beyond Research into development and Deployment, which is when something can get big enough to generate big $$.
b) They don't depend on anything exotic in terms of materials or manufacturing. Although there's plenty of sand on the planet, we've seen temporary impediments like insufficient supplies of solar-grade silicon hold PV back. But, it takes a while to build the factories to create that silicon. Still, CSP & windmills don't need any of that, and I suspect there are a bunch of automobile-industry military-industry supplies who have useful capacity. one wonders, for example:
1 Abrams M1 tank & fuel it uses over its life = ?? CSP or windmills?
c) I've looked for home-size CSP with no luck, definitely hard to scale down, like wind turbines, although I've seen several companies trying that. We have too many trees around us for the latter, for sure.
d) For solar & home, besides solar hot water and solar PV (where that works), and just doing better insulation [we just put in some more thermal blinds over the big plate glass windows, and they really help], if I had a wish it would be for really smart window systems:
windows that are solar cells when then can be, reflective when they need to be, maybe with electrically-controlled blinds if needed, run by wireless sensor nets (temperature, light) that talk to programmable thermostats. Most of these pieces exist in some form or other, although I haven't seen them all together.
Anyway: Joe, have you any thoughts on windows in the built environment? and how much effieicny can be gained? [We're working on local codes, so this is of broader interest.]
The CSP that is being deployed today should be compared to peaking power. In that comparison, it is quite cost competitive already, as peaking power can cost as much as 25 cents per kWh. The deployment of CSP will bring reductions in cost from the standard "learning curve". While wind is currently cheaper than CSP, CSP is more valuable because it time of day correlates well with load.
Also note that Stirling Energy Systems' webpage already says the cost is less than 10 cents per kWh.
NREL's estimates are that we should see 7 cents per kWh around 2010 and 5 cents per kWh around 2020. These estimates pre-date the rapid rise in commodity prices, but CSP is pretty low-tech, and may be less affected (Ausra likens their materials to Farm equipment).
Sopogy makes smaller scale CSP:
Re: costs…don't believe all you read. I'll leave it at that.
Michael: thanks, I've seen Sopogy. Unfortunately, I don't really need 100kw on my roof.
Earl: I think "more valuable" is a little imprecise, i.e., it's certainly true in CA right now by $, i.e., daylight power costs more than night power
But, I think windpower might be "more valuable" in the long term, in the sense that:
a) At least in CA and the Southwest, there's enough sunlight for all the daylight power we need, given big CSP farms + PV for micro-scale help. Certainly some of the CSPs can do storage, and if someone invents really great batteries, we'd be done.
b) For baseload, though it seems like we could use a lot of windpower, given that big distributed windfarms can do that. See Prof. Jacobson's page at Stanford (a lot of good stuff):
and specifically, under I. b:
Cristina L. Archer and Mark Z. Jacobson, "Supplying baseload power and reducing transmission requirements by interconnectiing windfarms." 2007.
Windmills seem like a bigger part of the solution outside the sunny Southwest, i.e., where they "lack" nice empty deserts. I especially like putting windmills on farmland, a nice dual-use.
I also recommend Mark's testimony on April 9 to the US House of Representatives:
"I will discuss the scientific findings on the effects of carbon dioxide, emitted during fossil-fuel combustion in California, the U.S. and the world, on air pollution and health in California relative to the U.S."
See "Results from the studies and analyses are as follows:"
basically, more CO2 hurts CA health worse than it hurts most states.
Re: costs above — not referring to Sopogy
I came across this article on Concentrated Photovoltaics (CPV).
The article said something about the need to keep the CPV at or below 60 degrees C at least for the metal holding the thing together.
Maybe they could make a hybrid out of these things.
First heating: CPV for the first heating of the water to get the water temp to 60 C.
Second heating: The rest of the heating with the Ausra cheaper system.
Third heating: With the more expensive system that Lutz and the Dept. of Energy developed in the 1980's.
The thing I was wondering about with the Ausra system was the low water/steam temp they were using. Any increase in operating temps helps in the Carnot cycle.
If they could get electrical power out of the CPV, maybe that would help with their efficiencies and costs.
If I did the calculations correctly, then about 6–7% transmission losses per 1000 km for typical HVDC lines.
I am sure that additional advances will be made, but only 3% still seems a futuristic projection to me.
John Mashey, thank you for the nice wind references. I wrote "more valuable" as meaning providing a better cost of alternative minus CSP cost, i.e. a narrow sense. I think we would both agree that wind and CSP are both valuable in a more general sense. Indeed I think we would both say that diversity in methods of production is important, so we want to see a mix of wind, CSP, and eventually geothermal, ocean energy, etc.
For land use, a wind farm takes approximately 8 times the land area as a CSP farm of the same energy output, but since only 5% of the wind farm area is occupied by the turbines, that means the land displaced is about 60% less than a CSP farm.
says 2%.
http://www.wel.co.nz/index.asp?pageID=2145843299 says 2-3%.
I think this is the difference between the footprint of the blades and the (smaller) footprint of the towers, plus roads, transformers, etc.
has a good picture , with crops planted right up (close to) the base, since the baldes are normally high enough for tractors to pass underneath with no trouble.
John, I am using the American Wind Energy Association's FAQ number which include access roads (the rest of this is cut and paste from their FAQ entry):
How much land is needed for a utility-scale wind plant?
In open, flat terrain, a utility-scale wind plant will require about 60 acres per megawatt of installed capacity. However, only 5% (3 acres) or less of this area is actually occupied by turbines, access roads, and other equipment–95% remains free for other compatible uses such as farming or ranching. In California, Minnesota, Texas, and elsewhere, wind energy provides rural landowners and farmers with a supplementary source of income through leasing and royalty arrangements with wind power developers.
A wind plant located on a ridgeline in hilly terrain will require much less space, as little as two acres per megawatt.
Earl: thanks. From the various pictures I've seen, I think the 2X variation comes from their assumptions on access roads and rotor spacing. BTW, an interesting new design:
It remains to be seen, but this is a spinoff of some serious aeronautical engineering folks with a good customer list. Of course, one must always apply the cautions in:
Anyway, both CSP and wind turbines have a lot of merit.
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Concentrated solar thermal is great in some areas, but not all. It takes a lot of room and has yet to be determined what happens when you basically change the ecosystem that is under the ring of a geothermal tower for it to work correctly. The CSP Trough or even the stirling dishes seem to be a better choices for this type of job
since…"many people think CSP would lose massive amounts of power" & "…my (terrific) editor cut out a key clause: "We will need more transmission in this country," [especially low-loss long-distance high-voltage DC lines]…isn't the essential aspect of "Energy-Delivery" worthy of a few expansive Paragraphs rather than a incidental-clause, in-passing?
what do you mean by this paragraph exactly:
"One final point — based on the early comments on the Salon piece, I realize that many people think that a flaw in CSP is that it would require long-distance transmission lines that would lose massive amounts of power. Well, my (terrific) editor cut out a key clause that I probably should've put back:"
3 years in the 1950s, when we had practically no nuclear modeling capability like we do now. It doesn't require large forged pressure vessels or huge containments. It get much better efficiency than LWRs and uses a tiny fraction of the resources. http://alaminos.net
It will not be on rooftops, but in the deserts … there is enough space and plenty of sun … which is great for utility scale projects.
See also DESERTEC
and NEAL, is planning to build a 3,000 km-long (1,875 mile) power cable to Germany to
If you ask me, the Solar Thermal Millennium has eventually been unleashed!!!
Imagine the potential of water splitting and desalination combined with solar thermal power plants, as such build in Spain aka. Andasol I-III by Solar Millennium.
Solar thermal power plants are the most efficient way today to convert sunlight to electricity in large scale and utility scale.Remaining process heat can be used for sea water desalination.The desalinated water can then be used for hydrogen production.The water desalination is essential, otherwise we'd have the biofuel against food fight again, but this time it's about water.
(n.b. High efficient PV for roof tops, needs metals like Indium, hardly available and the energy required to produce such cells is horrible.)
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As far as comparing the "value" of solar vs. wind; if you compare energy sources as if they were all being used to power cars, via plugging into the grid or otherwise, solar looks pretty good according to the following.
"The same acre can produce 10 times as much energy from wind as it can from corn ethanol, 180,000 miles per acre per year. But both corn ethanol and wind power pale in comparison with solar photovoltaic, which can produce more than 2 million miles worth of transport per acre per year." http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1454/70/
I know, that's not solar thermal.
Earl's point, that wind turbines displace less of the land that they occupy (5%), even though they put out less amperage per acre, is one I hadn't thought of or heard before.
That would make them a good fit with agriculture.
As far as liquid-fluoride thorium reactors, that's all well and good maybe and could be used in the future. So could things like fuel cells and hydrogen and other promising technologies.
In the meantime, solar is here and now. There are a dozen or more solar thermal companies wanting to start building in the southwest. Ausra already is building a factory in Nevada to produce parts for their solar thermal plants. Another company is building a factory in Arizona to build receivers for CSPs. We've already started in California, building both solar thermal and photovoltaic plants.
I don't mean to imply that fuel cells aren't already viable for some applications.
Ormat is building thermal stations all around the US
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Your site is perfectly. Always, there is many interesting. I'll come to you once again.
Speaking strictly about technology, then yes, I agree that solar power is the best way to go to combat climate change, formerly global warming.
I thought this technology required a lot of water to clean the mirrors due to desert conditions. Is this not an issue ?
I don't know if this is covered in any of the posts, but another knock that is made on CSP is water consumption in the desert environments where it will be most economic to build. There is a ready response to this concern – a dry cooling technology called the Heller Cycle. It utilizes natural draft parabolic cooling towers with direct contact jet condensers. I can provide a good set of slides from DLR in Germany comparing cooling technologies, including Heller. Needless to say, it comes out looking very feasible. And the Heller Cycle has been used successfully for decades in various dry-climate applications. The main drawback is the use of the high-profile parabolic cooling towers, which put people in mind of nukes. But in a desert environment I don't that will be at the top of people's list of concerns.
I thought this technology required a lot of water to clean the mirrors due to desert conditions. Is this not an issue ?
Needless to say, it comes out looking very feasible. And the Heller Cycle has been used successfully for decades in various dry-climate applications. The main drawback is the use of the high-profile parabolic cooling towers, which put people in mind of nukes. But in a desert environment I don't that will be at the top of people's list of concerns.
Loved the article and it's where we need to go for energy, our planet, the safety of our country. We should have been there already.
I am a huge supporter of solar power because it is one of the most natural sources of raw power you can get from the earth. At under 10 cents per kilowatt, that is very feasible!
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I've never given this a try, but I think it's about time I do.
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Hi Everyone,
What would happen IF: PV price/watt goes to 60¢, a new method doubles the efficiency of 2H20 > 2H2 + O2 electrodes. The result is SUPER CHEAP H2.
We can burn it in IC engines, or even to generate heat in boilers for electric generation. SUPER CHEAP H2 can actually save the world a small (or large) bit at a time! Burnt in fuel cells, it will yield no CO2. No CO2 = No melting ice caps, no rising sea levels, and the easing of world hunger. Libya could once again become the garden of the middle east, thru de-salinization!
Guess what? I have a process for making 60¢/watt Silicon Solar Cells, and a potential method for making the high efficiency electrodes!
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Not to be nit picky, but power has the units of watts, and energy kilowatt-hours.
Cyclone Technologies has developed a closed system steam engine with high efficiency that can be married to a parabolic collector and an alternator to produce on site electricity. No long distance power lines. It looks very promising to me. Cyclone Tech. has a very informative web site.
Good read, thanks. Always looking out for weird and wonderful stuff to read :)
Hydro is the way to go
I think on our most basic level we are creative beings and as we grow older we tend to get pulled or pushed away from that. Great article!
Hydro is the way to go, totally agree.