RE<C: Brayton Project Overview
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Introduction RE<C was a Google initiative to drive innovation in renewable energy, with the goal of making renewable energy cheap enough to compete head-to-head with coal-fired power plants. Hence the name RE<C “renewable energy cheaper than coal.” As part of this initiative, Google formed an engineering team to develop promising technologies in the field of solar energy power generation. After evaluating many technologies, we focused our engineering efforts on concentrating solar power (CSP) because we felt it was an area where we had the biggest opportunity to innovate.
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