ESolar's First Solar Power Tower Operational!

A solar power tower is a solar power plant that uses fields of hundreds of mirrors to focus sunlight on a boiler to produce electricity.

This new power plant has two towers and 24,000 mirrors and produces around 5 megawatts of power, enough to power about 4000 homes in areas near the Lancaster California power plant. ESolar has strong funding from the likes of Google and other large clean-tech focused venture capital firms.

ESolar's new power plant is small scale, but an excellent demonstration of their technology. The goal of the project (one might say this is the goal of all solar power projects actually) is to produce electricity cheaper than coal. But ESolar seems to have a technology that is impressing people in the know. Already they have contracts to build 465 more megawatts of these solar power towers at three sites in California and New Mexico.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• esolar
• solar
• solar power
• solar power tower
• bill gross
• idealab
• lancaster
• clean technology
• green
• environment

[fallofautumndistro]

Good job on slowing down the speech so everyone can keep up. And thanks for the info. Sounds like a great project.

[calvintennant]

October = August?

[slowblues3x5]

Make more videos!

[19sasukelover]

Did Hank quit this channel



[aaronl22]

We need an Eco Geek App!

So we can read our Eco news on the go :D

Would be so greatful if you would do this, as i'm sure all the other readers would too.

[imamadmad1]

please upload more vids. these r very good and i want 2 c more!!!!

[readergirl1028]

HAAAAANNNNKKKKK. Post something on this channel.

[46kalas]

shit.... spanish solar tower is the best.Abengoa is better than esolar..solucar produced 20 mw....esolar only 5mw

[SonOfTerra92]

Brains for the Earth ....

[Allante715]

Solar as a horrible capacity factor. What does this mean? Basically you are only going to reach 5MW 20 percent of the time. Nuclear on the other hand has a 90 percent capacity factor.

[ThomasTheTank142]

hahahaha silly hank. i think you mean mirror not meer and turbine but turban.

[PoppaTom1948]

Great job bubba!! Keep up the great work and thanks for working so hard to keep us informed!