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Solar Tower
SolarMission owns the license to breakthrough Solar Tower
large-scale renewable
energy technology with the potential to challenge the energy
industry as it is operates today. The technology is based on the
concept developed by renowned German structural engineer Professor Jörg
Schlaich, founder and principal of leading structural engineers, Schlaich
Bergermann and Partners.
Solar Towers operate on the simple principle hot air rises;
the movement of rising hot air is utilized to drive turbines to
generate electricity.
The concept uses solar radiation to heat air beneath a large
translucent collector to create a constant flow of heated air to
drive electricity-generating turbines. The turbines are located at
the base of a very tall tower in the center of the collector, and
the movement of the heated air through these turbines is increased
by the updraft effect created by the tower.
The solar tower can produce
electrical generation in large-scale quantities and be a competitive alternative to
coal and gas based electricity generation. Current development and
design of the World’s first commercial Solar Tower in Australian
will have the capacity to produce up to 200MW of electricity from
a single unit. A power station of this size produces enough
power for an estimated 200,000 households.
An important differentiation of a
Solar Tower power station from other conventional power stations can
be highlighted by their proposed excellent zero emissions
performance. In effect a Solar Tower will produce an abundance of
clean electricity by capitalizing on clean solar energy. |
