Solar Tower Energy in Spain, Madrid

Brett Rodli, Website Developer, SolarMission Technologies, Inc.

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• Spain
• Madrid
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[hablerz]

This design could be incorperated into the houses of parliament and other political buildings to harness the enormous amounts of hot air generated within.

[Charlesincharge42]

A desert is the best place to build them, BTW.

The only way these are going to be built is for everyone (including you!) to call or email your utility company and tell them you want it !!

The 'floating solar chimney' can be built for about 1/3rd the cost of an equivalent coal powered plant up to about 400MW!

You tube doesn't allow links, but you can Google "Floating Solar Chimney technology" to see it, the web address ends with .gr

Thumbs up to keep this on top, so everyone can know!

[lisanecesita1aparato]

@pintoresmadrid madrid es de castilla la nueva... es decir... la mancha xD otra cosa es que con la transición le hicieran una comunidad para ella sola

[Charlesincharge42]

@Siddis33 Sounds like a great question for the engineer that came up with the idea.

Although I did find the FAQ with the following answer:

"The fabrics for the FSC’s lifting tubes are already used in airship, balloon or outdoor tent industry. Very strong fabrics, reinforced with composite fibbers, for the FSC’s supporting tubes are already used in the construction of many inflated structures with higher overpressures, in sailing etc."

[Siddis33]

@Charlesincharge42 There is something I don't get with the Floating Solar Chimney. Always when power is produced over a turbine there is a pressure drop. EnviroMission calculates with a drop at about1500 Pa. This means that there will be a net pressure on the canvass of about 150 kg/m2. No fabric can withstand this. I can't see that the floating solar chimney is realistic.

[pintoresmadrid]

joder confundir la mancha con madrid, bueno están pegados pero vamos.

[Derukugi2]

@vampov

Well, why don´t you explain your simple solutions to engineers world-wide. Because power plants are always built as close to consumers as possible. Everybody except you seems to see the problem.

[vampov]

@purplemutantas they are trying to build a real massive on in AZ

[vampov]

@Derukugi2 Well transportation isn't a issue if you up the voltage really high the resistance is almost nill

[albornozmicrofibra]

energia solar

[beancube2010]

At the top of the pipe, if you add several mini size of this Concentrated Solar Power disks /watch?v=rRYfsAExkUw, it can initiate the upward drift of air flow.

[Chrisbutler1993]

@hablerz ^win lol