Solar Tower - Large Scale Renewable Energy Animation

[brettrodli]

EnviroMission via press release "EnviroMission Solar Tower Project Financial Commitment". EVM has received a formal commitment to provide the entire development and construction capital for EVM's first solar tower power station being developed in La Paz county Arizona to deliver the terms of a power purchase agreement with the SCCPA.

The financing is subject to the due diligence and the acceptance of related banking instruments by EVM's legal adivsors and bankers..."100% pure equity".

[updrafttower]

Will the tower survive an earthquake? If it tumbles down in the desert nobody will be wounded, and there is no radioactivity as in nuclear power plants.

But the investment into the concrete tower would be gone. Or you use an elastic construction or a WEEBLE TOY tower ;-)

[updrafttower]

According to the current events in japan this can become interesting - but what happens with the tower in an earthquake? Elastic material could be a solution.

And if the tower should tumbles down in the empty desert nobody will be injured.

[randommagnum]

EnviroMission should definitely have a checkered chimney like in this video.

[pacificcresttrans]

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[aceflamingo23]

Build it... just... just... build it....

[brettrodli]

EnviroMission Solar Tower Wins Southern California Public Power Authority: Press Release on Enviromission's website.

[coalandnuclear]

200mw! thats it, thats pathetic

[AirshipCanon2]

Line Ark's Power Recycling Plant? 0_0

[kaduisaui]

It's a giant sit and spin!

[borncoza]

One is about to be built at Fuente el Fresno

in spain. 750 meters high, 40MW and will save 78 tons of carbon dioxide.

[Dzoete]

the absorber doesn't need to be black,it works like a greenhouse.If the collector was black most of the heat will be lost.

[JJ24011991]

no way hose

[chuckshissle]

This is promising.

I'm gonna try to make a hamster wheel turbine generator to power my laptop.

[Twodaystogo]

they should build heaps in australia and sell to other countries

[OrganicDrew]

FOCUS people FOCUS it blows my mind how an engineer can construct something that is intended to extract energy from the sun but they neglect to condition the absorber to be the color black so a good 80% of the energy that could have been absorbed is lost

[guarapomabi]

it is meant to create contrast so that you dont go blind, like i did!

[skyerunner]

Coloring it black would actually be a disadvantage for these. The reason they are so effective is that it is the ground underneath the raised panels that is being heated as well, so the heat is re-radiated at night and the turbines can be spun all night from the reradiated heat.

[pdxjules]

I've seen several designs. There's one in Isreal too, and one in planning stages for Australia. Remember in considering sites that access to high voltage Power Grid lines is necessary for remote generation. Let's get of these these going where possible, however...without new high-voltage lines, which raise everyone's bills monthly on a permanent basis.

[mvirtuallyhere]

That would be Israel, thank you.

[borncoza]

Actually it's no more a concept, because one of these small-scale tower is currently running in spain.

[joemc111]

If you check I think you would find that some of the guide wires on that tower rusted into and the whole thing fell some years ago.

[brettrodli]

If you like this video of the solar tower, find the Discovery Channel video (Youtube will not let me post the link) on the EnviroMission's solar tower. It is quite good. Click my alias, and you will see a list of my videos. Click the one with the hot air balloon. It is worth watching.

[Lokivoid]

Looks like a rather ineffective Solar mirror arry surrounded in solarpanels, and i say ineffective by the fact that your focusing mirrors are smalle placed arracticly across the tower, could be better off makeing three(atmost) giant mirrors to focus the light

[TaffyAlpha]

You are misunderstanding the concept, those arn't mirrors or even solar panels. Its called a solar updraft tower. Research it.

[GCVos]

Dont know what im looking at, but looks alright.

[PabloManUK]

interesting concept