Enviro Mission

Situated in the desert of Australia, this plant of solar energy will be the highest construction of the world and also the most ambitious workmanship to generate electricity from a non-polluting source... The biggest project of production of solar energy of the planet is being touched in Mildura, in the way it desert Australian. A tower of 1 kilometer of height for 130 meters of diameter, that will be the highest construction of the world when to be ready, in 2009, will be raised in the center of an immense solar panel, of 20 kilometers squared. If everything to run as the foreseen one, the heat generated for the panel will form a draft of up to 50 kilometers for the moment in the enormous chimney, the sufficient one to put into motion 32 turbines, to generate 200 megawatts of energy and to supply up to 1 million of people.

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[lampmanone]

you only need to think of Japan today, it can happen here.

All things are possible with patience and tenacity, Dan

[sonhoreturn]

@lampmanone That's right! Very true.

[dekonfrost7]

yea, good point what has the us spent on the war in iraq so far over 100 billion? pluse the lives of enough people to staff the worlds largest solar energy company. so yea i agree.

[arielavio]

If we use this kind of tecnology, terrorist will not have money from petrodollars...we will not have wars too...

[lampmanone]

in 1934. This was tested in California, oil was cheap at that time, so it was scrapped.

In the early 70s, low prices started to skyrocket, why did our leaders not do something.. Too much oil money.

[565Customz]

this will never be built. it would cost to much..however a variaant of it may be

[edratliff]

So therefor it is very rigid. The solar tower is not going to be built to those specs. Thats why it uses the cables at various places within the tower - to stabilize it kind of like a bicycle wheel.

This kind of design also makes it suseptible to susceptible to heavy wind loads. Look up the YouTube vid of a glass breaking when high frequency sound waves are thrown at it. The soundwaves are kind of like heavy winds in this case.

But hey, engineers say it can be built. So DO IT ALREADY!

[edratliff]

Absolutely. It takes a lot to stand up to a 700mph 747 Jet. 1m of concrete would not do a lot to stop it. Look at the Pentagon. That was thick reinforced concrete walls - not to mention the layers of kevlar and whatever else they used to make it "blast proof". That tower is going to be less stable than a skyscraper. Skyscrapers are built to carry heavy loads WITHOUT moving.

[bigrobnz]

A dingo stole my idea!!!

[T2Gibbon]

At first i thought the energy would be generated by the solar panels ... shame on me ^^

Lol if someone gets too close to the tower 'CHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwhoops' Bye...

But i noticed a similar effect next to a Cooling Tower of a Nuclear Power Plant... had to hold my Basecap tight otherwise it would be gone^^

Very Scifi Animation ;)

[DeliriumSC]

Yea, me too.

[hppa1]

Yeah you are probably right I still think though that terrorist arent going to target it.