Green Options » solar tower http://greenoptions.com/tag/solar-tower Posts tagged 'solar tower' Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:07:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en A Bloody Big Solar Tower http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/06/a-bloody-big-solar-tower/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/06/a-bloody-big-solar-tower/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:07:39 +0000 Joshua S Hill http://cleantechnica.com/2008/07/06/a-bloody-big-solar-tower/ 82.hi When you think of the future of solar power, you normally envision flat panels out in some massive field, blinding the sheep for miles around, or even the small panel up on your roof. What you’re unlikely to imagine is a bloody great big tower in the middle of nowhere.

A not so new energy concept has been unveiled by EnviroMission Limited in South Melbourne, Australia, and it harkens back to an idea demonstrated more than 20 years ago. It is basically small amount of panels on the ground, centering around a massive tower. The collectors warm the air near the surface, and then channel it up the tower. Turbines placed at the bottom make electricity created by the updraft.

“It’s a combination chimney, windmill, greenhouse,” said Kim Forté of EnviroMission Limited, who have designed a kilometer-high tower, and now are hoping to build it somewhere in southwestern USA.

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