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Concentrated solar power (also called Concentrating Solar power, Concentrated Solar Thermal, or just CSP) are systems that generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area. This often heats a medium (such as water) which is used to drive another process to convert the energy into electrical energy.

• Joe Biden Pledges to Make Solar Panels More Environmentally Toxic
  If you thought Arsenic doped Silicon or Gallium Arsenide on your roof was bad, how about solar cells made of organic Lead compounds, or Cadmium Telluride? Biden's quest for cheaper solar is exploring some truly terrifying photovoltaic innovations.
• How ‘Iron Man’ bacteria could help protect the environment
  But Reguera's team challenged that thinking and found Geobacter to be effective cobalt "miners," extracting the metal from rust without letting it penetrate their cells and kill them...
• Researchers discover toxic heavy metals in Portland’s trees and air
  We don’t often think about whether there are toxins in the plants around us – those are natural, right? Yet researchers in Portland, Oregon made an unsettling discovery: common tree moss in the area contained heavy metals...
• New Report Lists World’s Most Polluted Places
  Green Cross Switzerland and Blacksmith Institute have released a report on the world's most polluted places. The report, titled The Top Ten Toxic Threats: Cleanup, Progress, and Ongoing Challenges, includes chemicals, e-waste, radioactive contamination,...
• Cadmium Spill in China’s Liu River Threatens to Contaminate Water Supply for 3 Million People
  A cadmium spill in the Liu River of southern China has police and emergency personnel scrambling to clean and protect the water supply of a major city in its path...
• Is Apple Involved in Heavy-Metal Pollution in China?
  Chinese environmental groups are questioning whether Apple, which has refused to respond to their inquiries, is involved in heavy-metal pollution in the country.
• Arsenic, lead and cadmium in our waters?
  Due to a recent Supreme Court case, Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, a mining company will dump toxic mining waste into a pristine Alaskan lake on national forest lands.Redefining mine waste as "fill material," which is exempt...