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CoolEarthSolar.com has a patented idea for
inflatable solar collectors that are much cheaper
than polished mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto
Photovoltaic chips. Their design is 400x cheaper
than polished aluminum mirrors, will withstand 130
mph winds, lasts a year, repairs with tape, takes
15 minutes to change out, costs $2 per balloon, or
18 cents per watt, compared to $5 per watt for
conventional installations, and has a minimal
effect on the ground underneath the array!
http://www.coolearthsolar.com/technology
Animation: Mark4Lewis@Comcast.net
Tags : solar energy coolearthsolar collector photovoltaic concentrator animation illustration lewis bryce peakpixels |
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| 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).
Tags : environment green house gas solar tower power renewable energy global warming co2 climate change emissions wind farms |
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