 I've always enjoyed power, I've always enjoyed energy, but the fact that we can get it from the sun is really something quite exciting. My name is Wes Steen, I'm at CSIRO here in Newcastle. This is one of the two solar towers in Australia. It looks simple in many ways, you know, you reflect the sun, you make something hot, you make steam or you turn a turbine. There's an awful lot of R&D and mistakes that have happened along the way, we've overcome them and we're now up there with the best technology in the world. This technology is fantastic because its real value is in the storage, the very low cost storage that it provides. So you could see photovoltaics, wind, all working, but as long as we've got the storage there to back that up, we've actually got a firm dispatchable renewable power supply. So we've started here at CSIRO just over a decade ago, we've taken some risks, we've built some solar fields here and we're now internationally recognised for our research. What we're looking to do is to get this technology out of R&D and into industry as quickly as possible. You can probably see around you that it is the sort of technology that Australians would love to build. Australian government has been very supportive of this work to the point now where as a result of that support, we're internationally recognised here and being asked to move our technology overseas. China has suddenly become this behemoth in renewable energy. They've come to us, they've said this looks really good, we would like to buy it and so we've licensed our technology that was developed through Australian government funding now to Chinese companies and very soon we could actually see Australian technology being built in China. The heliostats are very much like a car and so we've had great success working with the automotive industry in Australia using their expertise to turn our ideas into mass produced items at as low a cost as possible and that's happening right now. We've licensed a number of Australian companies to do this. We also are working with companies to build this tower. In fact everything that you see here was built with expertise within 50 kilometres of Newcastle.