Concentrating solar power (CSP) to generate bulk electricity is one of the technologies best suited to helping to mitigate climate change in an affordable way, as well as reducing the consumption of fossil fuels. Life-cycle assessment of the emissions produced, together with the land surface impacts of CSP systems, shows that they are ideally suited to the task of reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants, without creating other environmental risks or contamination. Each square meter of CSP concentrator surface, for example, is enough to avoid annual emissions of 200 to 300 kilograms (kg) of carbon dioxide, depending on its configuration. Most of the CSP solar field materials can be recycled and used again for further plants.
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