Solar Tower - Renewable Energy Green Global Warming

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SolarMission Technologies (www.solarmissiontechnologies.com) and its Australian subsidiary, EnviroMission Limited (www.enviromission.com.au) produced this 5 minute video on the pilot plant in Spain. It is an older video (2000) but gives a decent understanding of the solar tower concept.

EnviroMission, Ltd. (US Market: EVOMY, Australian Exchange: 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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  • Oh yes! You have ...

    Oh yes!
    You have no idea how much less power a car needs.

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  • 60 KW for this ...

    60 KW for this monster?
    It is not even the power of a single car!

    By blank72 [Affiliate User] 1201967811 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • How sis this not ...

    How sis this not come to mind ages ago???

    By NicoleVanZyl [Affiliate User] 1201864393 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • hope it can ...

    hope it can generate energy without pollution

    By lynn111088 [Affiliate User] 1201584863 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Just the sort ideas ...

    Just the sort ideas we need to be exploring to solve our long term energy needs here in the states. Go Aussie.

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  • Beautiful way to ...

    Beautiful way to make electricity

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  • A very interesting ...

    A very interesting pilot plant. When and where can we expect to see some more trials like this and how reliable would you rate this equipment?

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  • Loved the video, ...

    Loved the video, thanks. I can easily see how the Solar Tower could very easily scale. I imagine it's something like double the diameter, four times the power. At some point, I would imagine the height of the tower becomes immaterial.

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  • There might be a ...

    There might be a problem with polination of them under a tent of that size. I think it could be done by human means though.

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  • Your logic is ...

    Your logic is faulty. Read the last part of your post. The planets have such different characteristics that any correlation is spurious at best.

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  • Having 4 blades ...

    Having 4 blades instead of more suggests to me that it moves rather fast in the day.
    Overall I'm impressed at how amazing it works. Building the tower higher may seem quite impractical, as high winds will require thicker walls and deeper foundation. What effect will it have on the output if the tower is pyramidal or upside down pyramidal?
    This plant will require quite some embodied energy in making plastic and the reinforced concrete tower, but definately worth investing.

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  • oh okay. so we ...

    oh okay. so we could probably place solar toweres in aeroplanes then? kyheheh, nah kidding...

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  • You didn't pick up ...

    You didn't pick up a single hint of sarcasm in his post?
    ...

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  • Are you kidding?

    Are you kidding?

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  • since this thing is ...

    since this thing is a green house under the plastic then why dont they grow organic foods?multipurpose machine..

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