EnviroMission and the Solar Tower on the Discovery Channel

EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market symbol: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange symbol: 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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[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".

[brettrodli]

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

[maxfreshz]

great idea, i really hope this and other similar ideas get built soon. we really need to start utilizing clean renewable energy sources as soon as possible.

[LordBLB]

"Totally unfeasible"

I was thinking the same thing. But what if they were to wrap Photovoltaic panels around the diameter of the tower to collect even more sunlight as it passes over it during the course of the day?

Combining multiple technologies just might do the trick here...

[lcabosa]

@LordBLB complementary technologies..., create a floating updraft collector field , with a otec at the bottom of the tower and u have a giant distill apparatus to create a "river from the sky". by the way the air flux income comes from a Urban area on the rim of the floating field, here little radiators call humans produce a lot of heat , air conditioning solved. the submerged part of the field u could have a coral metropolis for others species, i m working on it....

[AGTLI]

@edratliff This thing is designed to last 80 years, 3 years to recoup the investment is hardly an unreasonable time frame.

[SunGreenSolarEnergy]

There's been a lot of news recently about sunspots and solar flares. I was wondering if these have any effect on solar power systems? Do they create more electricity than normal during solar activity?

[SuperKenny720]

iT'S COLD AS HELL RIGHT NOW!

[DuncanTheNarrowGauge]

Cool. How about we make Burj Khalifa into that?

[MotorMill]

This concept has been around for a few decades. They did experiments in Spain back in the early 90's. The original plant used a single vertical wind turbine that produced about 30kw, and plastic sheeting instead of glass. They were surprised to find that plants thrived under it like in a green house.

[haimaphil]

@drmodestoesq It may require more energy to heat the water, while turf would heat almost instantly. Besides water and salt may catalyse corrosion of metal structures. Although water and salt can store heat, and give it away during the night.

[knightman57]

The Enviromission power tower concept can work and work well. However there is no reason why the heat collection canopy could not include an inviroment for a population, town or small city which by itself generates heat which is recycled by the tower. The canopy can also work as a protective climate controlled area in which to grow anything a super greenhouse of sorts . using the power tower on an Island which included open sea under the canopy would also be a very good.

[drmodestoesq]

The one question I have about this tower is why the greenhouse section is not filled with sea water. Water vapour is less dense than air so it would rise up through the tower. Then the distilled water would rain down in the immediate area creating a microclimate. The the high salt content water could then be either sold to Indonesia or the magnesium chloride could be sold to magnesium processors (perhaps using the electricity from the tower) or returned to the ocean.