EnviroMission Limited (www.enviromission.com.au) produced this 5 minute video on the pilot plant in Spain. It is an older video (2000) but gives a decent understanding of the solar tower concept.
EnviroMission, Ltd. (US Market: EVOMY, Australian Exchange: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators.
A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).
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I admire the …
I admire the arguement you present however the numbers even equate a better total. 900 tons on 1 job for a natural powerplant that lasts 20+ yrs. heck, some nuclear plants are close to 50 yrs old. Over the long term, the numbers do add up to significant reduction.
That’s an idea. I …
That’s an idea. I kinda like that.
Now that’s a great …
Now that’s a great idea! Mulit-use all the way!
interesting but not …
interesting but not very realistic unfortunately. What we could start doing is actually building shuttles/crafts in space just outside of the Earth. Doing so would reduce need for blasting through gravity & saving that much extra fuel.
I see this is quiet …
I see this is quiet old but, did it ever take off ?
Plastic sheet, empty tube/tower and turbine – cheap, easy to set up, and it can possible be used to collect water as well !
this is ugly.
It …
this is ugly.
It is possible and plausible, but it’s still ugly. Then again, I live next to a large radio station and I think that’s ugly too.
Water towers? Nah, those are fine. Giant nuclear reactors? Well those are really ugly too. But so are the giant coal plants nearby…
Good idea but there …
Good idea but there might be one problem.
I think its air which comes out at the top of a solar tower. if the solar power is so big it goes into the space, wouldnt that mean that some air will go into deep space and not come back to earth. Sooner or later all air has been sent up to Space and we will all die.
EnviroMission Solar …
EnviroMission Solar Tower Wins Southern California Public Power Authority: Press Release on Enviromission’s website.
heres an idea. make …
heres an idea. make this solar tower big enough to go in space and you get a space elevator, whilst reducing global warming and greating lotsa energy.
The towers could be …
The towers could be used as green houses to provide locally grown produce making the footprint the towers make almost negligible. The closer in your food is grown the less energy expended in it’s cycle. The best thing that could happen is fuel prices to make another sharp increase to show that using fuel is unwise why continue that which is unsustainable when you have options available today?
what if empty malls …
what if empty malls&parking lots across the US had these plants in them???
hecterrrrs
hecterrrrs
Spettacolare, altro …
Spettacolare, altro che nucleare!
I just have one …
I just have one thing to say , to all of you carbon reduction supporters , all of your numbers are way off , you never take in to account the amount for carbon it takes in the production of these Green power production plants , all the coal powered plants in 3rd world countries that supply the power to produce the parts ,I have nothing against other forms of energy . If it takes 900 tons of carbon to make and it only saves 100 tons per year and only runs for 7 years ? Is it really better ?
looks super!
looks super!
you’re right, lol, …
you’re right, lol, but I think the image of 150 something km/hour winds in a car park could be a bit of a question for health and safety people
chuck a couple in …
chuck a couple in the US deserts, a few more in the saharan….we’re be fiiiiiiiiiine. As for material all there is is some sheets of plastic and a chimney, a few less things required than for a nuclear reactor or a geothermal power plant. No I like this idea, but it seems like this is a one off, that german company needs to expand and diversify me thinks before this can have a chance of taking off…
its a good idea, …
its a good idea, but still the draw backs of space and material are still important.
BP and Shell shook …
BP and Shell shook confidence in the UK industry when they abandoned all plans for developing wind farms in Britain last year in favour of the US, where the tax treatment and planning regime is considered far more favourable. The exit of Shell was a particular blow because it was backing the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, the London Array, off Kent.
The power output of …
The power output of a car is so much less than the actual power output of the fuel. A petrol engine (of any kind) is VERY inefficient.
Beautiful way to …
Beautiful way to make electricity
they should build …
they should build these above all the big parking lots we have.
tarmac -asphalt gets so hot. + all those hot cars. it would be very efficient.
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and then collect the rain water at weight points, & use it locally if possible.
holy cow! I read …
holy cow! I read about this in popular science! I didn’t know they ACTUALLY made one!
This apparently was …
This apparently was a pilot project built in 1982 and ran nonstop for seven years.
Yes
Yes