He said the technology could be used to capture waste heat from a conventional 500-megawatt thermal power plant to boost electricity out by 200 megawatts.
Case in point: California recently approved construction of a 370-megawatt solar thermal project in the middle of the Mojave Desert the first such large-scale project in the U.S. in over twenty years.
Google has invested directly in renewable energy projects, such as the 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant now under construction in California.