Solar Panel Company Helps Power Zero Emissions Oil Refinery

     Silicon Valley - GlassPoint Solar's  power supply generators will be used in a popular kind of oil extraction process.  Natural gas is normally used in this type of oil recovery process, but natural gas is scarce and therefore expensive in many parts of the Middle East, and natural gas emissions are not good for the earth's atmosphere. 
     GlassPoint's solar project will provide one-third of the steam at Oman's Amal oilfield.  Experts estimate GlassPoint will save some 300,000 tons of Co2 emissions each year.  Unlike traditional solar companies that focus on solar panels, GlassPoint uses mirrors that are specifically designed for oil operations.  The 300,000 tons of carbon emissions projected to be kept from polluting the earth's atmosphere, amount  to the equivalent of 63,000 car's annual exhaust emissions, or put another way, it is more Co2 emission savings than all the electric cars sold by Tesla and Toyota combined in the United States.  "It's very energy intensive to produce energy.  Unlike gas-fired units, GlassPoint's units, GlassPoints solar steam generators produce zero emissions," GlassPoint co-founder and CEO Rod MacGregor told CNNMoney.  See, whole story, www.cnn.com.