500MW Solar Thermal Power; Costco Gazelle to do e-recycling; Solar powered weather station; Hiding Solar Panels in Santa Monica; Iceland debating geothermal 500MW Solar Thermal Power array in Riverside County, CA . Tessera Solar has won a bid to develop up to 500 megawatts of solar thermal power plants on land owned by Riverside County in California. Building 500 megawatts with Stirling Energy Systems’ SunCatcher mirrors would require about 3,500 acres of land space. Costco