Solar Tower – renewable energy green global warming
EnviroMission Limited (www.enviromission.com.au) produced thіѕ 5 minute video οn thе pilot plant іn Spain. It іѕ аn older video (2000) bυt gives a clad understanding οf thе solar tower concept. EnviroMission, Ltd. (US Market: EVOMY, Australian Exchange: EVM) іѕ a renewable energy developer οf sustainable “green” energy solutions fοr thе energy market. EnviroMission aims tο bе one οf Australia’s leading producers οf сlеаn renewable energy. EnviroMission holds thе proprietary rights tο Solar Tower equipment, a large-scale renewable energy equipment based οn simple fundamentals οf physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower equipment hаѕ thе potential tο offer competitive renewable energy wіth equal reliability tο fossil fuel generators. A single 200MW Solar Tower power station wіll provide enough electricity tο power around 400000 households. Thе energy output wіll represent аn annual saving οf more thаn 1960000 tonnes οf greenhouse CO2 gases frοm entering thе environment whеn compared tο auburn coal emissions іn Victoria. Thе greenhouse savings equate tο thе removal οf approximately 500000 cars frοm thе road. Thе Australian Solar Tower project consists οf six distinct phases, thе first two οf whісh (project optimization аnd pre-feasibility commercialization) hаνе already bееn completed. Thе third phase (final feasibility), paving thе way fοr thе implementation οf thе next three phases (final design, construction, аnd commercial operation).
OMG, it’s getting so freaking hot in Phoenix this summer (like every summer) that we’d power half the country with those.
absolutely perfectly simple! i have long plotting our energy needs will not be solved by hi tech, carbon heavy solutions, simplicity is the way to go, a perfect example i applaud the inventors!! simpler is better!!! absolutely perfect.
@aargh5 Clever guy do you realy reckon they could achieve a tower that strech thru the artmosfeer na dont reckon so
How does the air go in in the first place? From the sides?
@GFS05np we should just eliminate blacktop as a whole…
its gonna prevent the earth beneath it from flourishing and growing.
but how can we make something excellent enough and biodegradeble to replace tar and cement?
hmmm
Would this work in the British Isles?
There should be one in every country.
keep in mind that this is just a 1/5 scale prototype of the actual tower that they want to build. and this tower isn’t meant for energy output as its main goal (but it still is) its meant to be a test to figure out what materials and settings work best so when the make the real one it will be as efficient as possible.
Also this was shut down after 8 years because it was structurally unstable. I reckon they are currently building or at the least still designing the full scale one…
I admire the arguement you present but the numbers even equate a better total. 900 tons on 1 job for a natural powerplant that lasts 20+ yrs. heck, some nuclear plants are close to 50 yrs ancient. Over the long term, the numbers do add up to significant reduction.
That’s an thought. I kinda like that.
Now that’s a fantastic thought! Mulit-use all the way!
appealing but not very realistic unfortunately. What we could start doing is really building shuttles/crafts in space just outside of the Earth. Doing so would reduce need for blasting through gravity & saving that much extra fuel.
I see this is silent ancient but, did it ever take off ?
Plastic sheet, empty tube/tower and turbine – cheap, simple to set up, and it can possible be used to collect water as well !
this is hideous.
It is possible and plausible, but it’s still hideous. Then again, I live next to a large telephone system station and I reckon that’s hideous too.
Water towers? Nah, those are fine. Giant nuclear reactors? Well those are really hideous too. But so are the giant coal plants nearby…
Excellent thought but there might be one problem.
I reckon its air which comes out at the top of a solar tower. if the solar power is so huge it goes into the space, wouldnt that mean that some air will go into deep space and not come back to earth. Sooner or later all air has been sent up to Space and we will all die.
EnviroMission Solar Tower Wins Southern California Public Power Authority: Press Release on Enviromission’s website.
heres an thought. make this solar tower huge enough to go in space and you get a space elevator, whilst reducing global warming and greating lotsa energy.
The towers could be used as green houses to provide locally grown produce making the trace the towers make nearly negligible. The closer in your food is grown the less energy all gone in it’s cycle. The best thing that could happen is fuel prices to make another sharp increase to show that using fuel is unwise why continue that which is unsustainable when you have options available today?
what if empty malls&parking lots across the US had these plants in them???
hecterrrrs
Spettacolare, altro che nucleare!
I just have one thing to say , to all of you carbon reduction supporters , all of your numbers are way off , you never take in to account the quantity for carbon it takes in the production of these Green power production plants , all the coal powered plants in 3rd world countries that supply the power to produce the parts ,I have nothing against other forms of energy . If it takes 900 tons of carbon to make and it only saves 100 tons per year and only runs for 7 years ? Is it really better ?
looks super!
you’re right, lol, but I reckon the image of 150 something km/hour winds in a car park could be a bit of a inquiry for health and safety people
chuck a couple in the US deserts, a few more in the saharan….we’re be fiiiiiiiiiine. As for material all there is is some sheets of plastic and a chimney, a few less things required than for a nuclear reactor or a geothermal power plant. No I like this thought, but it seems like this is a one off, that german company needs to expand and diversify me thinks before this can have a chance of taking off…